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A student walks one fourth mile from her home to the store on her way to a friends house. If the store is one third of the way to her friends house, how far is her friends house from her way home ?

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Answer:

three fourth mile=[tex]\frac{3}{4} mile[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

  • She walks [tex]\frac{1}{4}[/tex] mile from her house to store
  • The distance from house to store is one third of distance to friends house

[tex]\text{Distance from house to store}=\frac{1}{3} \times \text{Distance from house to friends house}\\ \text{Distance from house to friends house}= 3\times \frac{1}{4}\\ \text{Distance from house to friends house}=\frac{3}{4}[/tex]

Distance from her house to friends house  [tex]\frac{3}{4}[/tex] miles