Question

A scale on a hiking map shows that 3 inches represents 1.25 miles.

What number of inches on the map represent 10 actual miles?
inches

Answer 1

24ins

Explanation:

Answer 2

24 inches

Explanation:

Set up the equation like this

3 inches is to 1.25 miles as x inches is to 10 miles

3/1.25 = x/1,0 solve x by using cross multiplication

30 = 1.25x

30/1.25 = x

24 = x

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