SOLUTION: if you were running 10 mph for 5 min, how far would you go?

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Question 234718: if you were running 10 mph for 5 min, how far would you go?
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5 minutes is 1/12 of an hour. At 10 miles per hour, you would go 10 miles in one hour. Therefore you would go 10 X 1/12 miles in 1/12 hour or 5 minutes. Simplification left as an exercise for the student.

John