SOLUTION: A math 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 t

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Question 1208100: A math 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?
a). 7/24 time
b). 5 1/4 time
c). 10 times
d). 11 times
Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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Total distance traveled was  2%2A%287%2F8%29 = 14%2F8 miles.


We should determine, how many times  1%2F6  of a mile fits in  14%2F8 miles.


For it, we divide  14%2F8 : 1%2F6 = %28%2814%2F8%29%29%2F%28%281%2F6%29%29 = %2814%2A6%29%2F8 = 84%2F8 = 104%2F8 = 101%2F2.


Thus,  we see that  1/6  of a mile fits  10  times into  14/8  miles  (and half of  1/6  mile remains).


Jamie makes pushup at the end of each  1/6  miles - hence, Jamie will stop 10 times.    ANSWER

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