Question

Oscar and Maria each wrote ab equation that they felt represented the proportional relationship between distance in kilometers and distance in miles. one entry in the table paired 162 km with 95 miles. if I represents the number of kilometers and m represents the number of miles, who wrote the correct equation that would relate kilometers to miles? explain why.

oscar wrote the equation k = 1.6m, and he said that the unit rate 1.6/1 represents kilometers per mile.

Maria wrote the equation k = 0.615m as her equation, and she said that 0.625 represents kilometers per mile. ​

Answer 1

Oscar

There are 1.6 km per mile.

Explanation:

The table entry tells you tells you that the number of kilometers is larger than the number of miles for the same distance. The relationship that reflects this is ...

k = 1.6m . . . . . Oscar's equation