Bryan completed a 100-meter race in 11.74 seconds. Luis completed the same race in 11.69 seconds. What was the difference between their times, expressed as a fraction of a second?

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Answer:

[tex]\frac{1}{20}[/tex] of a second

Step-by-step explanation:

We can convert each time into fractions.

11.74 is the same thing as [tex]11 \frac{74}{100}[/tex]

and 11.69 is the same thing as [tex]11 \frac{69}{100}[/tex].

We know that 11 - 11 = 0, so we can focus on the fractions for now.

Let's subtract [tex]\frac{69}{100}[/tex] from [tex]\frac{74}{100}[/tex].

[tex]\frac{74}{100} - \frac{69}{100} = \frac{5}{100}[/tex].

We can now simplify [tex]\frac{5}{100}[/tex] by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 5.

[tex]\frac{5\div5}{100\div5} = \frac{1}{20}[/tex].

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