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A map of New York has a scale of 1/2 inch : 5 miles. Cindy knows the distance to her grandmother’s house is 85 miles. How many inches
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A map of New York has a scale of 1/2 inch : 5 miles. Cindy knows the
distance to her grandmother’s house is 85 miles. How many inches will the
distance be on the map?
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2021-08-17T20:02:52+00:00
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Answer:
8.5 inches
Step-by-step explanation:
1/2 in = 5 miles
? = 85 miles.
So you would do 85/5 to figure out how many times you have to multiply 5 to get to 85.
85/5= 17
So then you would multiply 17 by 1/2 to get the answer 8.5. So that would b 8.5 inches