Question

Sandra is a swimmer for her local high school and also a club team. The high school coach wants her to swim 2 5/6 miles per week. The club team coach thinks it is better for her to swim 3 2/3 miles per week. Obviously, the club team coach thinks its more better. Sandra wants to look at how many miles that would be over a 8 week period.

Answer 1

Here, we have two coaches giving directions as to the best distance for Sandra to swim per week.

In the question, we are told that the club team coach has a better opinion.

So now, we want to calculate the total distance that Sandra will swim, given that he takes the opinion of the club team coach.

From the question, the club team coach wants a distance of 3 2/3 miles per week

So the total number of miles this will be in 8 weeks = 3 2/3 * 8

We need to write the mixed fraction as an improper fraction

Thus, we have 11/3 miles

Multiplying this by 8, we have 11/3 * 8 = 88/3 = 29 1/3 miles

That would be a distance of 29 1/3 miles in an eight week period