{"id":224235,"date":"2025-06-02T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=224235"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:35:13","slug":"four-athletes-from-the-republic-of-korea-competed-in-a-team-wheelchair-race-the-paralympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/four-athletes-from-the-republic-of-korea-competed-in-a-team-wheelchair-race-the-paralympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Four athletes from the Republic of Korea competed in a team wheelchair race the Paralympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>. The team finished the race in a total of 190.729 seconds \u2022 First team member: 46.685 seconds \u2022 Second team member: 48.869 seconds \u2022 Third team member: 49.33 seconds How many seconds did it take the fourth team member to complete his part the race?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224236\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer: 45.845 seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To work out the missing split time, start with the overall time recorded for the four-person relay: 190.729 s. This represents the combined duration of the four individual legs because in a relay the clock never stops; each athlete\u2019s time contributes directly to the total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem already supplies the first three individual splits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 First athlete: 46.685 s<br>\u2022 Second athlete: 48.869 s<br>\u2022 Third athlete: 49.330 s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add those three values to see how much of the total has already been accounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46.685 s + 48.869 s = 95.554 s<br>95.554 s + 49.330 s = 144.884 s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So 144.884 s of the 190.729 s total is explained by the first three racers. The difference between the total and this subtotal must therefore be the fourth racer\u2019s contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>190.729 s \u2212 144.884 s = 45.845 s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That subtraction can be verified quickly on a calculator or by doing columnar subtraction with three decimal places (thousandths of a second). Aligning decimals ensures we keep the precision consistent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  190.729  \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2212 144.884<br>= 45.845<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because each of the input times is given to the nearest thousandth of a second, it is appropriate to present the result to the same precision: 45.845 s. Rounding to fewer places would discard meaningful information, while quoting more places would imply accuracy the original data do not support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conceptually, this exercise demonstrates a common technique in time-splitting events: when some split times are missing, subtraction of known splits from the official aggregate reveals the unknown leg. Accurate bookkeeping of decimal places is essential, especially in elite sport where hundredths of a second can change medal positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the fourth Korean wheelchair racer completed his quarter of the relay in <strong>45.845 seconds<\/strong>, contributing the final piece that brought the team\u2019s cumulative performance to 190.729 seconds, precisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner7-95.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224237\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. The team finished the race in a total of 190.729 seconds \u2022 First team member: 46.685 seconds \u2022 Second team member: 48.869 seconds \u2022 Third team member: 49.33 seconds How many seconds did it take the fourth team member to complete his part the race? The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Answer: 45.845 seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}