Carmine and Hiram are solving the following word problem. Gina is training for a marathon. She ran 6.75 miles on Saturday. On Sunday, she ran 7.20 miles. How far did she run on Saturday and Sunday combined?

Carmine sets up his problem as 6.75 + 7.20

Hiram sets up his problem as 7.20 + 6.75 whos right?

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step-by-step explanation:

answer: the answer for that is 22/3

8.75

how-to:

first, we need to find what we have to work with.

since i know that we have 7 (years) and 0.8 (inches), we can use these to solve and find the equation!

secondly, what you want to do, is see that we need to know how much growth out of the 0.8 inches he got in only 1 year, instead of 7 years.

let's try to divide.

7 ÷ 0.8 = 8.75