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Postby nycmath » Sat Aug 15, 2026 4:20 am

It takes a snail x hours to travel 10 miles. At this rate, how many hours y will it take the snail to travel 60 miles?
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Re: Number of Hours y

Postby Eigenvalue » Sat Aug 15, 2026 10:10 am

We can set up a proportion:
[tex]\frac{x}{10}[/tex]=[tex]\frac{y}{60}[/tex]
10y=60x
y=6x

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Re: Number of Hours y

Postby nycmath » Sat Aug 15, 2026 11:48 pm

Eigenvalue wrote:We can set up a proportion:
[tex]\frac{x}{10}[/tex]=[tex]\frac{y}{60}[/tex]
10y=60x
y=6x


Correct.

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