Question

Two neighbors in a rural area want to know the distance between their homes in miles. What should the neighbors use as a conversion factor to convert this distance to miles ?

Answer 1

1 foot = 0.000189394 miles

Explanation:

The two neighbors in the rural community could measure the distance between their homes first in feet. So that the value in feet can now be converted to miles by multiplying it by 0.000189394.

Since,

1 foot = 0.000189394 miles

Let us assume that the distance between the two houses is 500 feet, then;

1 foot = 0.000189394 miles

500 feet = x miles

x = 500 x 0.000189394

= 0.094697

So that for the considered example, the distance is approximately 0.095 miles.

Thus, the required conversion factor is;

1 foot = 0.000189394 miles