SOLUTION: A family travels, by plane, five hundred miles from their city to a beach town. Then they take a taxi from the airport to the hotel at the beach. When they ask the driver how far t
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Question 918920: A family travels, by plane, five hundred miles from their city to a beach town. Then they take a taxi from the airport to the hotel at the beach. When they ask the driver how far the airport is from the hotel, he tells them twenty kilometers. What is the approximate total distance, in miles, the family traveled? Recall that 1 kilometer is about 0.62 miles.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"five hundred miles from their city to a beach town.", AIR=500*miles.
"taxi from the airport to the hotel at the beach.", DRIVE=20*kilometers.
Analysis forces to make the interpretation that the airport is in this beach town.
, miles
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