A running track has 8 lanes each a meter wide.Each"straight" is 100 meters long. The distance around the track for someone running in the middle of the inside lane is 400 meters.
What is the distance around the track for someone running in the middle of the outside lane?
the outside lane is 7m farther out than the inside lane.
So, its circumference is 14π longer
Then would the answer be 43.98???
To find the distance around the track for someone running in the middle of the outside lane, we need to consider the extra distance covered by each lane.
In this case, the track has 8 lanes, each being a meter wide. Since the runner is positioned in the middle of the outside lane, they will cover half of the width of the inside lane in addition to their own lane.
To calculate the extra distance covered by the outside lane, we add the width of the inside lane (1 meter) to the width of the outside lane (1 meter), resulting in a total of 2 meters of extra distance.
Now, with the additional 2 meters, we can add it to the distance around the track for someone running in the middle of the inside lane, which is 400 meters.
So, the distance around the track for someone running in the middle of the outside lane is 400 meters + 2 meters = 402 meters.