Question

The historical walking tour of a town covers a total distance of 5 miles. The map shows that the path of the tour travels 3 inches north, 4 inches east, 2 inches south, and 1 inch west. How many miles does each inch on the map represent?

Answer 1

Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

Since the problem is given all the total walking distance, the first thing we are going to do is find the total distance in the map:
$Diastance_{map}=3+4+2+1$
$Distance_{map}=10$
Now that we have the distance in the map, we can establish a ratio between the walking distance and the distance in the map:
$\frac{5miles}{10inches} = 0.5 \frac{mile}{inch}$

We can conclude that each inch the map represents 0.5 miles of walking distance.