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6. Many American cars feature speedometers

that show kilometers per hour. If you are re-
quired to drive 500 miles, and you know that
one kilometer is approximately of a mile,
how many kilometers would you cover in that
journey?

User ETO
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Answer:

500km

Explanation:

Let the journey covered in kilometers be A

Since

1 km = 1 mile

x km = 500 miles

Cross multiply

X km x 1 = 500 miles x 1 km

X = 500km

The journey covered in kilometers will be 500km

User Andrey Ermakov
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