Question

PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME

The distance on a map from Lynchburg to Houston is 5 in. The scale on the map is 1/2 in = 100 mi. What is the actual distance?

A) 100 mi

B) 10,000 mi

C) 1000 mi

Answer 1

C 1/2 an inch equals 100 miles.each inch equals 200 miles. So now you take 200×5 and you get 1000 miles

Answer 2

1,000 miles

Explanation:

set up the equation as

100x = d

where x equals the number of half inches between two points on the map

and d equals the distance between those points in real life

5 inches = 10 half inches so, plugged in the equation looks like

100(10) = d

simplify it to

1000 = d

and bam, the real distance is 1,000 miles