Mike, Chris, and John decided to go running. Mike can run 4 miles per hour, Chris
can run 6 miles per hour, and John can run 5 miles per hour. Mike ran for 1 hour
and 45 minutes, Chris ran 70 minutes, and John ran for 90 minutes. What was
the total amount of miles that they combined to run?

1. 25.5 miles
2. 25 miles
3. 21 miles
4. 21.5 miles
5. 22.5 miles

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Answer:

21.5 miles total

Step-by-step explanation:

First, identify what you know:

1) Mike can run 4 mph, and runs a total of 1 hour, and 45 minutes (105 min)

2) Chris can run 6 mph, and runs a total of 70 minutes.

3) John can run 5 mph, and runs a total of 1 hour, and 30 minutes (90 min)

We need to calculate how many miles each person ran, and then add the miles ran, to find the total!

Mike: 1 hour and 45 minutes it equal to 1.75! So, in one hour, Mike ran 4 miles. He ran 3/4 of 4 mph, in 3/4 of an hour! Thus, Mike ran 7 miles. Simply multiply 1.75 by 4, to get 7 mph.

Chris: Chris ran 6 mph for 70 minutes. 6 mph, means that Chris can run one mile per every ten minutes! In 70 minutes, he'll have run 7 miles.

John: If john ran 90 minutes, that means he ran 1.5 hours! Simply multiply 1.5 by 5 mph, to get 7.5 miles!

Now, all we need to do, is add the totals!

7 + 7 + 7.5 = 21.5

In total, Mike, Chris, and John ran 21.5 miles!

Hope this helps! :)

The total amount of miles they ran was 21.5 miles