Number Theory and Fractions

Question

The length of the Boston marathon is 138,435 ft each stride or step by a particular runner is 3 ft long. Does the number of strides the runner takes fir evenly into the length of the race explane

Answer 1

The asker Teresa wants to know if the # of strides is an even#, so it looks like we'd want to do this: Add the first stride, being odd, to the second stride, which is even, for a total of 6ft. Then I would divide the total length of the race by that even number of strides. (138435÷6) The result is 23072.5, showing that the runner would have to take one more stride past 23072 to finish the race, making the answer no.