Robert climbed 775 steps in 12 and a half hours. How many steps did he average per minute

Question

Robert climbed 775775775 steps in 12\dfrac1212
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12, start fraction, 1, divided by, 2, end fraction minutes.
How many steps did he average per minute?

Answer 1

Hi Bob, Happy to help!

To solve this problem, you need to focus on the dimensions that are shown. Initially the problem mentions 775 steps for every 12.5 hours which can be read as steps per hour. We need to go to a unit of steps per minute. To do this we need to convert the 12.5 hours to minutes which converts at 60 minutes for every 1 hour.

To convert to minutes to hours, we multiply 12.5 hours and 60 minutes per hour to get 750 minutes.

To get steps per minute, we divide 775 steps by the 750 minutes to get 1.03 steps per minute.