One track coach wants his athletes to race 3 miles around a track to measure how fast each person can run. If the track is 1 over 3 of a mile around, then how many laps around the track will the athletes have to run to complete the race?
Whats up boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Okay so i'm assuming they mean that the length of the track is 1/3 of a mile. So the way that i would approach this problem is by coming up with an equation Because we are dealing with a fraction im going to change 3 miles into a fraction so [tex] \frac{3*3}{1*3}= \frac{9}{3} [/tex] So the equation [tex] \frac{1}{3}x= \frac{9}{3} [/tex] (multiply both sides by 3) [tex] \frac{3}{1}* \frac{1}{3}x= \frac{9}{3}* \frac{3}{1} [/tex] (the 3's cancel out) x=9 so they have to run 9 laps to make 3 miles
