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Okay Aspiring math people Another drill for you on a

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map Two inches represent a thousand miles Jenna's luxury jet

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travels at five hundred fifty miles an hour in lands

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after seven hours If she draws a straight line on

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the map from the airport of departure to the airport

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of arrival to visualize the distance she traveled what would

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be the length of the line and inches Living A

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life of luxury must be so tough with all that

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time on your hands there jenna can we at least

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get a ride if we carry your luggage or something

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All right the question tells us that two inches on

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a map represents a thousand miles in real life We're

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looking for the length of that line that represents jenna's

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journey on the map But table that for a second

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and start by calculating how far jenna traveled Well five

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hundred fifty miles in seven hours That's thirty eight hundred

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fifty miles and we have more units than we need

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here so it's time to get rid of some of

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them Sorry it's not you miley miles It's the problem

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Yeah okay so let's do this equation or three eight

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fifteen miles We're going two inches to a thousand miles

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and that gets us seven point seven inches that she

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traveled Well as with numbers and variables we can cancel

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units like this that appear in both the numerator and

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the denominator of a fraction And doing so leaves us

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with inches which is what we're looking for in the

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first place So that's it Answer is seven point seven

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inches way did that We'd have a little teeny tiny 00:01:27.107 --> [endTime] jet Would be kind of cute Quiet

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