NYC block
Bijan wants to go running during his family's vacation to New York City. To do so, he will run a neighborhood block 20 times. Bijan runs a total of 8 miles. The block has a length of 3/20 miles. Use the formula for the perimeter of the neighborhood block and the reciprocal to find the width w of the city block.
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