Claire jogs around an oval track and is able to complete one lap in 5 minutes.
If she jogs at the same pace for 42 minutes, how many laps would she be able
to jog? Write an inequality and find the number of whole laps Claire completes.
You have two numbers.
Do you think you should
add?
subtract?
multiply?
divide?
What answer did you get?
Divide
The answer is 8.4 laps
To solve this problem, we can set up an inequality and find the number of whole laps Claire completes.
Let's denote the number of laps that Claire completes as "x."
Since Claire can complete one lap in 5 minutes, she can complete x laps in x * 5 minutes.
We know that Claire jogs for a total of 42 minutes, so we can now write the inequality:
x * 5 <= 42
To find the number of whole laps that Claire completes, we need to solve this inequality.
Dividing both sides of the inequality by 5, we have:
x <= 42 / 5
x <= 8.4
Since we are looking for the number of whole laps Claire completes, we round down to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, Claire would be able to jog a maximum of 8 laps.