Matt ran 8 laps in 1,256 seconds. If he ran each lap in the same amount of time, how many seconds did it take him to run 1 lap?

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Jan 18, 2017

If Matt ran 8 laps in 1,256 seconds, and he took exactly the same amount of time to finish each lap; then it took him #ul(157)# seconds to run each individual lap.

Explanation:

Let #l=#laps

#s=#seconds

and

let #s/l=#number of seconds per lap

then,

#8s/l=1256# So basically we have #l(s/l)=s#

Then we need to divide both sides by the number of laps #l=8#

#<=>#

#s/l=1256/8=157#

Then it took Matt 157 seconds to run each lap.

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