Jerome burns 4 cal/min walking and 10 cal/min running. He walkds between 10 and

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Jerome burns 4 cal/min walking and 10 cal/min running. He walkds between 10 and 20 min each day and runs between 30 and 45min each day. He never spends more than an hour running andwalking together. How much time should he spend on eachactivity to maximize the number of calories he bruns? Thanks. Jerome burns 4 cal/min walking and 10 cal/min running. He walkds between 10 and 20 min each day and runs between 30 and 45min each day. He never spends more than an hour running andwalking together. How much time should he spend on eachactivity to maximize the number of calories he bruns? Thanks.

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in order to maximize calories burned, jerome needs to run asmuch as possible and walk the rest of the hour. in other words, jerome needs to run 45 minutes and walk 15minutes each day. this is running the max duration possible andwalking the rest of the remaining hour (15 minutes)

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