SOLUTION: Wendy is training to run a marathon. Her training for week 1 is 7 miles. She plans to increase her training run by 1.5 miles each week. Write an equation to find the number of mile
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Question 590643: Wendy is training to run a marathon. Her training for week 1 is 7 miles. She plans to increase her training run by 1.5 miles each week. Write an equation to find the number of miles she will run, M, in terms of the week, w, of her training run. Wendy's goal for her 12th week training run is 26 miles. Will she reach that goal?
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Her training for week 1 is 7 miles.
She plans to increase her training run by 1.5 miles each week.
Write an equation to find the number of miles she will run, M, in terms of the week, w, of her training run.
m = 1.5w + 7
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Wendy's goal for her 12th week training run is 26 miles.
m = 1.5(11) + 7
m = 16.5 + 7
m = 23.5 mi
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Will she reach that goal? Not quite
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