Let's assume that the whale swims at a constant speed throughout the 5-day period. Then we can use a proportion to find an equation that represents the relationship between the number of days and the number of miles the whale swims.
Let's represent the number of miles the whale swims in 5 days as x. We can set up the proportion as:
5 days / 200 miles = 16 days / x miles
To find the equation, we can cross multiply:
5 * x = 200 * 16
5x = 3200
Dividing both sides of the equation by 5, we get:
x = 640
Therefore, the equation to find how many miles the whale swims in 16 days is x = 640.
a whale swims 200 miles in 5 days identify which equation could be used to find how many miles it swims in 16 days
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