SOLUTION: a cyclist completes 30 laps of a track in 18 minutes, how many minutes will it take to complete one lap??? PLEASE HELP!!!!!

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Question 882584: a cyclist completes 30 laps of a track in 18 minutes, how many minutes will it take to complete one lap???
PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Answer by Leaf W.(135) About Me  (Show Source):
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To determine how many minutes it will take to complete one lap, you want to find the the average time it takes the cyclist to complete one lap -- his average number of minutes/lap. Thus, you can simply divide the number of total minutes he biked by the number of laps he did in that time:
minutes%2Flap+=+%2818_minutes%29%2F%2830_laps%29+=+0.6+%28minutes%2Flap%29
Therefore, it will take him 0.6 minutes, or 36 seconds (since 0.6 minutes * 60 minutes/second = 36 seconds) to complete a lap.