Miguel and his brother Ario are both standing 3 meters from one side of a 25 meter pool when they decide to race. Miguel offers Ario a head start. He says he will start when the ratio of Arios completed meters to his remaining meters is 1:4. How many meters will Ario swim before Miguel starts his race? Round to the nearest tenth

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Jacquelyn Hopkins

Mathematics

4 January, 21:15

Miguel and his brother Ario are both standing 3 meters from one side of a 25 meter pool when they decide to race. Miguel offers Ario a head start. He says he will start when the ratio of Arios completed meters to his remaining meters is 1:4. How many meters will Ario swim before Miguel starts his race? Round to the nearest tenth

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Zack Garner · Answer 1

Since both of them are 3 meters from one side of the 25 meter pool, the distance that they have to cover is actually only 22 meters only. To answer this item, we let x be the distance covered by Ario and 22-x be his remaining distance. Such that,

x / (22-x) = 1/4

The value of x from the equation is 4.4.

Therefore, the distance that Ario had covered is 4.4 m.