SOLUTION: The round-trip distane between Kaitlin's house and her school is 3.2 miles. Kaitlin rides her bike to school 3 days per week. Write an expression that can be used to find the numbe

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Question 12159: The round-trip distane between Kaitlin's house and her school is 3.2 miles. Kaitlin rides her bike to school 3 days per week. Write an expression that can be used to find the number of miles kaitlin rides in w weeks.
Can you please show us how to set this problem up and solve it?
Answer by rapaljer(4671) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Total mileage = (Number of miles per trip) times (number of trips per week)times (number of weeks )

Total mileage = 3.2+%2A3%2Aw = 9.6w

The only way to "solve" this is to know how many weeks.

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