A road sign in Europe shows the distance between 2 cities as 850 kilometers. If 1 kilometer equals 0.62 miles, what is the distance between the two cities in miles?

Question

A road sign in Europe shows the distance between 2 cities as 850 kilometers. If 1 kilometer equals 0.62 miles, what is the distance between the two cities in miles?

Answer 1

Hi Carly. You can set up a proportion between 2 fractions for this.

You can make it kilometer portion/ miles portion = miles actual / kilometers actual.

Next is .62 / 1.0 = x / 850. Cross multiply, and you get .62 times x 850 = x times 1.0. That becomes 527 = 1.0 x.

Therefore, the distance in miles is 527.

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