SOLUTION: you are training for a triathlon. In your training routine each week, you bike 5 times as far as run and run 4 times as far as you swim. one week you trained a total of 200 miles.

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Question 386743: you are training for a triathlon. In your training routine each week, you bike 5 times as far as run and run 4 times as far as you swim. one week you trained a total of 200 miles. how many miles did you swim that week?
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you are training for a triathlon. In your training routine each week, you bike 5 times as far as run and run 4 times as far as you swim. one week you trained a total of 200 miles. how many miles did you swim that week?
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swim x miles
run 4x miles
bike 20x miles
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x+4x+20x=200
25x=200
/25
x=8miles swim
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