Question
Rae runds a mile 20 times. Her average time is 5.2 mins. She wants to drop her slowest time 5.8 mins and find the ew average. Write and equation to find are her new average running time
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Please check your figures. I think you have an error:
"drop her slowest time 5.8 mins"
Did you leave some words out?
"drop her slowest time 5.8 mins"
Did you leave some words out?
Nope
If you mean that her slowest time is 5.8 minutes,
20 * 5.2 = 104
104 - 5.8 = 98.2
98.2 / 19 = 5.16824 = 5.2
20 * 5.2 = 104
104 - 5.8 = 98.2
98.2 / 19 = 5.16824 = 5.2
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