Answer to Question #147723 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Joseph Se

Question

Every morning Joy walks to school from her boarding house and takes only a single route. For five consecutive days, she tries to count the number of paces she makes. Monday morning’s number of paces made by Joy is listed as 345 paces. On Tuesday, 353 paces; Wednesday, 358 paces; Thursday, 348 paces and, lastly, on Friday 355 paces. That Friday afternoon, a surveyor from City Engineer’s Office who is tasked to lay out a new drainage piping system, measured the exact route she took and found out that the taped distance is 275m. What is Joy’s pace factor?

Answer 1

Mean of paces from Monday to Friday:

345+353+358+348+355=1759

1759/5= 351.8 paces

Total distance= 275m

275/351.8

The pace factor is 0.78