{"id":243085,"date":"2025-07-04T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=243085"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:44:02","slug":"each-lap-around-a-stadium-track-is-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/each-lap-around-a-stadium-track-is-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Each lap around a stadium track is 1\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Each lap around a stadium track is 1\/4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mile. How many laps would a runner have to complete to get a 26 -mile workout?<\/p>\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>To find out how many laps a runner would need to complete to cover a 26-mile workout, you can use the following calculation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that each lap around the track is 14\\frac{1}{4}41\u200b mile, you need to divide the total miles to be run (26 miles) by the distance of each lap (14\\frac{1}{4}41\u200b mile).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the number of laps needed can be calculated by:Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;laps=Total&nbsp;distanceDistance&nbsp;per&nbsp;lap=2614=26\u00d74=104&nbsp;laps\\text{Number of laps} = \\frac{\\text{Total distance}}{\\text{Distance per lap}} = \\frac{26}{\\frac{1}{4}} = 26 \\times 4 = 104 \\text{ laps}Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;laps=Distance&nbsp;per&nbsp;lapTotal&nbsp;distance\u200b=41\u200b26\u200b=26\u00d74=104&nbsp;laps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the runner would have to complete 104 laps to cover a distance of 26 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The formula used here is a simple division, but since you&#8217;re dividing by a fraction (14\\frac{1}{4}41\u200b), it&#8217;s easier to multiply by the reciprocal of the fraction, which is 4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>26\u00d7426 \\times 426\u00d74 equals 104, so the runner must complete 104 laps around the stadium track to meet the 26-mile goal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This type of calculation is common when converting between units or measuring repeated actions over a fixed distance, such as laps around a track.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner5-294.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243086\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each lap around a stadium track is 1\/4 mile. How many laps would a runner have to complete to get a 26 -mile workout? The Correct Answer and Explanation is: To find out how many laps a runner would need to complete to cover a 26-mile workout, you can use the following calculation: Given that [&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-243085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243085","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=243085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}