Question

Barry’s pet turtle, Turtlelini, escaped from his backyard. Barry found Turtlelini by the creek and wanted to determine how far Turtlelini had walked. On the map, Barry’s house is 0.6 inch from the creek. If the scale on the map shows that 1.5 inches are equivalent to 0.8 mile, how far did Turtlelini walk, to the nearest tenth of a mile

Answer 1

0.8*6/15
0.3 miles is the answer

Answer 2

0.3 miles.

Explanation:

We are told that Barry found his turtle, Turtlelini, by the creek.

We are also told that 1.5 inches on the map is equivalent to 0.8 miles.

So let us the unit rate for the scale in terms of

`\text{Unit rate}=\frac{0.8\text{ miles}}{\text{ 1.5 inches}}`

`\text{Unit rate}=\frac{0.53333\text{ miles}}{\text{inches}}`

So 1 inch on the map shows 0.533 miles in real.

Let us multiply 0.6 by 0.533 to find the distance Turtlelini walked.

`\text{Distance walked by Turltelini}}=\frac{0.53333\text{ miles}}{\text{inches}}* 0.6 inch`

`\text{Distance walked by Turltelini}}=0.53333* 0.6\text{ miles}`

`\text{Distance walked by Turltelini}}=0.3199\text{ miles}\approx 0.3\text{ miles}`

Therefore, Turtlelini walked 0.3 miles to the nearest tenth.