Question

When swimming the 5000 meter freestyle race, a swimmer travels at a steady pace of 68 seconds for each lap. Each lap of the pool is 100 meters. How long will it take for this swimmer to swim the 5000 meters

Answer 1

Well, since the race is a total of 5000m, and each lap is 100m, you would have to divide these two numbers to see how many laps around the pool it would be:

5000/100 = 50

Since his steady pace for a single lap is 68 seconds, you would multiple the number of laps, by the amount of time it would take him:

68*50 = 3,400 seconds

So in total it would take him 3,400 seconds, or 56 minutes 40 seconds.