Question

The distance on a map between a student's house and her job is 6 cm on the same map the distance between her house and her school is 8cm the actual distance from her house to school is 12km if D represents the approximate distance in kilometers between her house and her job what is D

Answer 1

9 km

Explanation:

First I did 12 divided by 8 to get the amount that each centimeter is worth.

I got 1.5

After that all i had to do was multiply 1.5 by 6 to get 9