Question

In July 2008, a forest fire near the Park Yosemite National burned about 53 miles squares of forest. If a square mile equals 640 acres, about how many acres of forest were burned?

Answer 1

33,920 acres of forest were burned.

Explanation:

In this case, since you know that a square mile is equal to 640 acres, you can use a rule of three to find the acres that are equivalent to 53 square miles:

1 square mile → 640 acres

53 square miles → x

x=(53*640)/1

x=33,920 acres

According to this, the answer is that 33,920 acres of forest were burned.