Question

When she wants to go downtown, a woman walks 1/16 mile toa bus stop and catches a city bus. Last month, she walked a3/8 total of mile to the bus stop to catch the city bus. Howmany times did she catch the city bus last month?

Answer 1

Notice that if we multiply the numerator and denominator by 2, we can write 3/8 like this:

`(3)/(8)((2)/(2))=(6)/(16)`

then,since the woman walk 1/16 mile each time she goes to the bus stop, then we have the following:

`(6)/(16)=6\cdot((1)/(16))`

therefore, the woman took the bus 6 times last month