As part of an annual fundraiser to help raise money for diabetes research, Linda joined a bikeathon. The track she biked on was 1408 yd long. Linda biked 32.5 laps. Her sponsors agreed to donate an amount of money for each mile she biked. How many miles did she bike?
Dimensional analysis is another way of doing unit conversions. In that method, we form conversion ratios and then cancel units (similar to how we cancel common factors when multiplying fractions). In the following example, I'll convert 45,760 yards to miles using the knowledge that 1 yard is 3 feet and 1 mile is 5,280 feet.
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They are the plurals of the units and the addition of the missing unit of
"miles" for the fraction at the bottom left of the page.
Dimensional analysis is another way of doing unit conversions. In that method, we form conversion ratios and then cancel units (similar to how we cancel common factors when multiplying fractions). In the following example, I'll convert 45,760 yards to miles using the knowledge that 1 yard is 3 feet and 1 mile is 5,280 feet.
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