Question

rusty burns 6 calories per minute swimming and 10 calories per minute jogging. In the morning Rusty burns 175 calories walking and swims for x minutes. In the afternoon Rusty will jog for x minutes. How many minutes must he jog to burn at least as many calories y in the afternoon as he did in the morning

Answer 1

at least 43 1/4 minutes (or 44 rounded)

Explanation:

I set up an equation:

175+6x=10x

Isolate x:

175=4x

x=43.25

is this a college question? (just curious)