The Iditarod sled dog race extends 1049 miles from Anchorage to Nome. If a musher is four timesfour times

Question

The Iditarod sled dog race extends 1049 miles from Anchorage to Nome. If a musher is four timesfour times
as far from Anchorage as from Nome, how many miles has the musher completed?
The musher has completed nothing
miles of the race

Answer 1

The expression "four times" appears twice.

 

Assuming this is a mistake, then the distance from Nome to Anchorage is broken in 5 pieces as he is 4 times as far from one city than the other. Let X represent one piece of the journey. 5X = 1049, so X = 209.8

 

Assuming this is not a mistake, then the distance from Nome to Achorage is broken into 17 peices as he is 4 x 4 = 16 times as far from one city than the other. In this case 17X = 1049, so X = 61.706 rounded to 3 digits.

 

The last statement contradicts the question.