After training for and running a marathon, an athlete wants to reduce her daily run
by half each day. The marathon is about 26 mi. How many days will it take after the
marathon before she runs less than a mile a day? Show your work.

This question becomes much easier when written out per day (shown below). The question tells us that she is reducing her run by half every day, so all we need to is divide the previous day by 2 to get the current day. She starts out with 26 miles so this is our day 1 value.

Day 1 = 26 miles

Day 2 = 13 miles (26÷2=13)

Day 3 = 6.5 miles (13÷2=6.5)

Day 4 = 3.25 miles (6.5÷2=3.25)

Day 5 = 1.625 miles (3.25÷2=1.625)

Day 6 = 0.8125 miles (1.625÷2=0.8125)

We can see that by day 6, her total running amount is less that 1 mile, so the final answer is 6 days.

After training for and running a marathon, an athlete wants to reduce her daily run by half each day. The marathon is about 26 mi. How many days will it take after the marathon before she runs less than a mile a day? Show your work.

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After training for and running a marathon, an athlete wants to reduce her daily run
by half each day. The marathon is about 26 mi. How many days will it take after the
marathon before she runs less than a mile a day? Show your work.