Question

Inessa ran 3 laps in 8 minutes. How long would it take her to run 10 laps at this pace?

Answer 1

`26.27` minutes

Explanation:

We can us rule of three to solve this problem.

We have that 3 laps are done in 8 minutes, and we want to know how much time it will take to run 10 laps:

laps minutes

3 ----------->8

10----------->
`x`

To find the value of x we do as follows:

`x=(8*10)/(3) =26.27` minutes

we cross multiply the values, and divide by the remaining value, thus we have the time it takes to run 10 laps is 26.27 minutes