what is the distance in miles between the two cities?

Question

the distance between the two cities is 14.75 Inches. If 2 inches equals 24 miles, what is the distance between the two cities?

Answer 1

For a problem like this, what you want to do is figure out how many inches are in one unit (in this case miles) and multiply the answer by the total number of miles (or whatever unit you are working with). You can use this method with any unit of measuring length (feet, yards, miles, etc.)

Answer 2

If 2 inches represents 24 miles than we need to find, how many miles 1 inch represents in order to find out easily how many miles 14.75 inches represents on a map.

Divide 24 miles by 2, and you have then that 12 miles is represented by 1 inch. So for 1 inch we have on a map we have 12 miles represented. It then follows that, 2 inches represents 24 miles, 3 inches represents 36 miles, and so on and so on in multiples of 12. So, now, if we want to know how many miles 14.75 inches is, we just have to multiply 14.75 x 12 which gives you 177.

This means 14.75 inches on a map represents 177 miles.

Answer 3

If 2 inches on the map represent 24 mile, 1 inch will represent 12 mile.

Then, we can use the cross-multiplication process to find how many miles that are represented by 14.75 inches on the map.

Therefore, 14.75*12/1 = 177 miles