SOLUTION: Below was a school assessment question: " A park has a perimeter of 7/8 mile. Jamie walked around the park twice. She stopped every 1/6 mile to do pushups. How many times d

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Question 1205861: Below was a school assessment question:
" A park has a perimeter of 7/8 mile. Jamie walked around the park twice.
She stopped every 1/6 mile to do pushups. How many times did Jamie stop
to do pushups?"
1). 7/24 time
2). 5 1/4 time
3). 10 times
4). 11 times
Please explain why one of the answers is correct.

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Below was a school assessment question:
" A park has a perimeter of 7/8 mile. Jamie walked around the park twice.
She stopped every 1/6 mile to do pushups. How many times did Jamie stop
to do pushups?"
1). 7/24 time
2). 5 1/4 time
3). 10 times
4). 11 times
Please explain why one of the answers is correct.
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Jamie walked the distance 2%2A%287%2F8%29 = 7%2F4 miles.


To learn how many times is 1%2F6 of a mile in 7%2F4 miles,
divide 7%2F4 of a mile by 1%2F6  of a mile.  The quotient is

    %28%287%2F4%29%29%2F%28%281%2F6%29%29 = %287%2A6%29%2F4 = 42%2F4 = 102%2F4 = 101%2F2.


So, Jaime stopped 10 times to do pushups.    ANSWER

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