Question

Alphonse is training for a marathon. He runs 6 1/2 miles every 2/3 hour. How far does he run in 2 hours?

Answer 1

You are given a distance, and you are given a time. So you know how many miles he is running in a certain amount of time

Answer 2

how do i show how to solve this question in unit rate?

Answer 3

Multiply 6.5 miles every 2/3 hour by 3 will give miles per 2 hours.
6.5 * 3 = 19.5 miles / 2 hours.

Answer 4

mody - by unit rate do you mean converting the velocity to miles per hour?

Answer 5

I don't think so. we are converting fractions to unit rates.

Answer 6

and the unit rates would be?

Answer 7

that's what Im trying to find out by the original question asked.

Answer 8

So, could you post the original question?

Answer 9

Alphonse is training for a marathon. He runs 6 1/2 miles every 2/3 hour. How far does he run in 2 hours?

Answer 10

So , that is the original question. Anyway, where are you asked about converting everything to unit rates?

Answer 11

we are doing unit rate/fractions. Alphonse is training for a marathon. He runs 6 1/2 miles every 2/3 hour. How far does he run in 2 hours? we need to show our work on how you multiply and divide fractions to get the unit rate answer.

Answer 12

Well if we multiply 6 1/2 by 3/2, it will give you miles per hour.

Answer 13

how do we do it by dividing?

Answer 14

Does it really require dividing? If you are supposed to learn about fractions, I'm guessing you have other problems to solve? If that's the case, maybe fraction division is in one of those problems.

Answer 15

Well anyway, converting 6 1/2 miles per 2/3 hour:

Let's convert 6 1/2 miles to halves and that's
13/2
Next we multiply this by 3/2 and we have
13/2 * 3/2 = 39/4 = 9 (3/4) miles per hour.

Answer 16

For 2 hours, we multiply by 2:
39/4 * 2 = 78/4 = 19 2/4 miles = 19 1/2 miles

Answer 17

Hope that helps you out.

Answer 18

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Answer 19

You were a great help Wolf. Thank You!!!