Question

4. Aniyah ran 5 blocks in 35 minutes. If she ran at a constant speed, how many minutes would it take her to run 2 blocks?

Answer 1

We want to know how many minutes it takes Aniyah to run 2 blocks. As we know that she runs 5 blocks in 35 minutes, we can represent the situation as:

Where x represents the minutes it would take her to run the 2 blocks.

As we know that when she runs more blocks, she will take more minutes, we get that the magnitudes blocks and minutes are directly proportional and we put the following proportion:

$\frac{5}{2}=\frac{35}{x}$

Now, we obtain:

$x=\frac{2\cdot35}{5}=\frac{70}{5}=14$

This means that Aniyah will take 14 minutes to run 2 blocks.