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 teem do you think won the meet? Why?Explanation / Answer
Given a table showing different strokes and time taken by the 3 teams.
1)Given time 1+0.08+0.006=1.086
Blue team has taken 1.086 minutes for backstroke.
2)For freestyle stroke, teams had 1.214, 1.190 and 1.214 minutes.
Therefore, yellow team has 9 in the hundredth's place.
3)Red team has 1.937, 1.521, 1.937 and 1.214
Therefore,for Breast stroke red team has 5 in it's tenths place.
4)For butterfly stroke teams had 1.937, 2.139 and 1.381
Therefore, blue team has 1 in it's thousands place.
5)For freestyle stroke the teams have the same time i.e., 1.214
The two teams are Red team and Blue team.
6)Red team has taken same time i.e.,1.937 for two different strokes.
The two strokes are Backstroke and Butterfly stroke.
7) I think Blue team won the meet. Because the total time for different strikes taken by Red team is 6.609,Yellow team is 6.119 and Blue team is 5.764.The team which has taken the less time will won.So, Blue team won the meet.
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