A man and his young child have a race. The child starts out 120 feet ahead of the man. For every 5-foot stride of the man, the child takes a 2-foot stride. How many strides will the man have to take to catch up to the child?

25.92 foot strides

Step-by-step explanation:

The man will take 120/5 = 24 five foot stride to cover the initial 120 foot advantage of the child.

Within this time, the child would have covered an additional 24/5 x 2 = 9.6 extra foot stride.

Within this 9.6 food stride of the child, the man will have to take an additional 9.6/5= 1.96 strides.

Total foot stride by the man will be 24 + 1.96 = 25.92 foot strides.

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step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following

answer: i believe it’s 245.04

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