SOLUTION: For your job, you often fly between Seattle and Miami. The distance between these cities is 2,724 miles. You earn a free flight after you accumulate 43,000 miles of travel. How man

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Question 1132545: For your job, you often fly between Seattle and Miami. The distance between these cities is 2,724 miles. You earn a free flight after you accumulate 43,000 miles of travel. How many round trips (back and forth) must you make between Seattle and Miami in order to earn a free flight?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Take the lesser integer.
Answer by ikleyn(52835)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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 = 7.89 (approximately; correct with two decimal places)


Take the minimal integer number greater than that.


It is 8.


ANSWER.  You need to make 8 round trips between between Seattle and Miami in order to earn a free flight.

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