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How many miles will a person run during a 10 kilometer race?

Asked by mathneedshelp (4points) October 4th, 2018

Use dimensional analysis.

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ragingloli's avatar

What kind of mile? There are many.

rebbel's avatar

5917.15976331 Miles’

elbanditoroso's avatar

What planet? On earth the answer would be one thing. On Zorgon, quite another. Zorgonians have miles that are the equivalent of 21.05 earth inches.

zenvelo's avatar

5.4 nautical miles.

Your “use dimensional analysis” is a redundant instruction.

janbb's avatar

You don’t need to use dimensional analysis as I understand the term. It’s a straight conversion. Ten kilometers is 6.2 miles as @ucme has said.

imrainmaker's avatar

Depends on how much he was able to complete..)

Pinguidchance's avatar

https://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-da.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch

1 inch is exactly 2.54 cm and dimensional analysis implies calculation from first principles.

10k = 10,000m x (100 / 2.54 ) inches = 393,700.787402 inches

393,700.787402 inches / (12×5280) = 6.21371192237 miles

The question requires the student to calculate the answer without a calculator.

ucme's avatar

When you run, as I do, km/mi conversion is second nature…strava is my friend.
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