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The distance between City A and City B is 250 miles. A length of 1.9 feet represents this distance on a certain wall map. City C and City D are 4.94 feet apart on this map. What is the actual distance between City C and City​ D?

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Answer:

"What is the actual distance between City C and D?"

650 miles

Explanation:

From what I can understand (d) will represent our missing distance...

first, we'll cross multiply like so
(250mi)/(1.9ft) = (d)/(4.94ft) then you would end up with 250(4.94) = 1.9(d) next reposition them like this
(250(4.94))/(1.9) = d and solve from here 250(4.94) = 1,235 divides this by 1.9
(1,235)/(1.9) = d finally, you have your answer 650 = d

I hope this helps you!

User Lars Bohl
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250/1.9 = 131.6
131.6 x 4.94 = 650.1
The actual distance is 650.1 miles

Hope this helps x
User Wwwilliam
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