The math here is running in circles, much like the poor souls on this track. If one lap equals 1/3 mile, then three laps should equal exactly 1 mile. Instead, we've got 1.2 miles—a 20% bonus nobody asked for. Somewhere, a mathematician is having heart palpitations while a physics teacher is using this as an example of how measurement errors compound. The real exercise here isn't running—it's mental gymnastics trying to make sense of this calculation.
Math Is Always A Problem
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