The city pool held an end of the season swimming competition. One of the events

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The city pool held an end of the season swimming competition. One of the events was the four-person relay. In this relay, each swimmer swam a different stroke for the same distance. The times in minutes for each team are shown in the table. Use the data in the table to answer the questions below. For which stroke did the blue team have a time of 1 + 0.08 + 0.006? Which team had a time for the freestyle stroke with a 9 in the hundredths place? For which stroke did the red team have a time with a 5 in the tenths place? Which team had a time for the butterfly stroke with a 1 in the thousandths place? For which stroke did two teams have the same time? Which two teams? Which team had the same time for two strokes? Which strokes? Which team do you think won the meet? Why?

Explanation / Answer

1) The blue team have a time of 1+.08+.006=1.086 for Backstroke.

2)The yellow team had a time for freestyle stroke with 9 in the hundredths place.

3) For the breaststroke the red team had a time with 5 in the tenths place.

4) The blue team had a time for butterfly stroke with a 1 in the thousandths place.

5) For the freestyle stroke red and blue teams have the same time.

6) The red team have same time for Backstroke and butterfly stroke.

7) Total time for the red team is less than that of the others. So red team will be the winners.

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