SOLUTION: Leo ran 1 1/8 miles every day for 7 days. He wrote the equation below to help him find the total number of miles he ran for the week. 1 1/8x7= Leo ran(More than, less than, equa

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Question 1128317: Leo ran 1 1/8 miles every day for 7 days. He wrote the equation below to help him find the total number of miles he ran for the week. 1 1/8x7=
Leo ran(More than, less than, equal) 7 miles in all for the week because 7 is being multiplied by a factor(less than, equal)1, so the product must be(less than, equal)7.

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If he ran 1 mile each day for 7 days,
+1%2A7+=+7+ miles/week
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If he ran 1 1/8 miles each day for 7 days,
+%28+1+%2B+1%2F8+%29%2A7+=+7+%2B+7%2F8+ miles/week
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7 gets multiplied by a factor greater than 1,
so the miles/week is greater