Question

Jensen stopped at rest area A along the side of the highway. His map shown below has a scale of 1 inch to 35 miles. Jensen planned to stop at rest stop B next.what is the actual distance in miles between the two rest areas

Answer 1

Would it not be 35 miles

Answer 2

Jensen stopped at A and planned to stop at B next. He has a map with a scale of 1 inch to 35 miles.

It is clear that 1 inch on map corresponds to 35 miles in actual.

From the map he has, we can see that both places A and B are 2.5 inches apart on map.

Let's assume those are "X" miles away in actual. Then we can use proportions to solve this problem.

1 inch to 35 miles would be same as 2.5 inches to X miles. Mathematically, we can write it as follows :-

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Hence, actual distance between A and B is 87.5 miles.