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We're told that a tortoise can travel 0 .17 miles in one hour.
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And we're asked to find how long it takes the tortoise to travel one mile at this rate, and then to round this answer to the nearest tenth of an hour.
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To understand this problem, first, let's define x to be the distance that the tortoise travels, or the time it takes the tortoise to travel.
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One mile and let's translate this into an equation so we have that the rate at which a tortoise travels which is 0 .17 miles per one hour this is equal to the one mile per x hours and in order to solve this equation cross multiply we get 0 .17 x equals 1.
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And then by the multiplication property of equality, we have that x is equal to 1 over 0 .17.
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This is the same as 1 over 17 ,100s, or 100 over 17.
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And we are asked around this answer to the nearest 10th of an hour...