Question

Amy was looking at a table of conversions from meters to kilometers. The table showed that 2 kilometers are equivalent to 2,000 meters. How can she determine how many kilometers are equivalent to 8,000 meters? Explain.

Answer 1

Amy can multiply 2 by 4, because the number of meters was multiplied by 4 to get 8,000 meters. 1 kilometer is a 1,000 times bigger than 1 meter. She could also divide 8,000 by 1,000 to get 8 kilometers.

Answer 2

Since the table showed her that 2 km = 2000m.
To determine, how many km in 2000m, she would divide by 1000.
= 2000 / 1000 = 2 km.

Similarly, for 8000m = 8000 / 1000 = 8 km

Cheers.