a group of hikers is planning a trip that will take them up a mountain using one route and back down using another route . they plan to travel down the mountain at a rate of one and a half times the rate they will use on the way up , but the time each route will take is the same . if they will go up the mountain at a rate of 8 miles per day and it will take them two days , how many miles long is the route down the mountain ?
on the way down , the rate is 1.5 * 8 = 12 miles per day . the distance of the route down the mountain is 2 * 12 = 24 miles . the answer is d .
multiply(multiply(8, const_2), divide(const_3, const_2))