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brought to you by the fifty meter dash for when

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you wanted to note a really long break in a

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sentence Wanda runs the fifty meter dash in nine seconds

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Her mile paces approximately three point two meters per second

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If one two ran at her fifty meter pays for

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the first five hundred meters and the remainder of the

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race at her slower a mile paste Approximately how long

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would it take wanda to finish a two thousand meter

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race And here the potential answers meters and miles and

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it's like oil and water right Well sounds like wanda

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is lacking either in energy or motivation As the race

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goes on maybe make her wear meat shorts and release

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a hungry cheetah somewhere around fifty meter mark that helps

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speed her up and make for some good entertainment until

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the mauling began All right we take it back That's

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Not the best idea All right So for five hundred

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meters one fourth of the race wanda is booking along

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at her fifty meter paste That which she can go

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fifty meters in nine seconds for the other fifteen hundred

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meters She slows to her mile pace of three point

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two meters per second And this question wants to know

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how much total time it'd take her to go Wire

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the wire All right well let's just break it up

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Almost as if this were to separate races and then

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we'll just add the two times together Well if one

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goes fifty meters in nine seconds then how long will

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it take her to go Five hundred meters while five

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hundred is fifty times ten So we'll have to multiply

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her time by ten as well and looks like it

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would take her in ninety seconds to go the first

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five hundred meters then for the latter part of the

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race No no not the latter part of the race

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That would be too cruel Kind of funny He slows

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to three point two meters per second So we're gonna

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want to know how many times Three point two goes

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into fifteen hundred Well fifteen hundred divided by three point

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two is about four hundred sixty eight point seven Five

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So that's how many seconds it will take her to

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go the last fifteen hundred meters adding them together We

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take ninety seconds Plus four hundred sixty eight Yeah Change

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seconds to get five hundred fifty eight point seven six

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seconds Which doesn't look anything like any of our answer

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choices Oh yeah we're supposed to convert that into minutes

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Celia's Well there are sixty seconds in a minute so

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let's divide five fifty eight and changed by sixty and

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we get nine minutes with a remainder of around nineteen

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seconds which is option b We're glad we decided to

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replace the meat shorts with carrot pants and the cheetah

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with bunny rabbits It's still added an unforeseen challenge but

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at least wanda will live to tell the tale Ah

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