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Response:

2/9 = 0.22

Clarification:

There are two ways to select the first number that is odd and less than 5: 1 and 3.

For each of these, the second number drawn can be any of the values from 1 to 9, giving us a total of 18 options.

Out of these, the only pairs that result in a sum less than 5 are (1,1), (1,2), (1,3), and (3,1). Thus we have 4 combinations from the total of 18:

4/18 = 2/9 = 0.22

Response: 4.4

Detailed breakdown:

Answer:

weeks to finish.

Provided:

Length of the roads needing repair =

Length of the road workers can fix in a week =

To ascertain how many weeks it will take to mend this road stretch.

Solution:

Worker's road repair rate =   per week.

The time required to repair

of road by the workers can be calculated: ⇒

When dividing mixed numbers, we change them first into fractions.

To compute fraction division, we take the reciprocal of the divisor and substitute division with multiplication:

⇒  

We revert the fraction back into a mixed number.

weeks to complete the road repair task.