Question

James lives 11.5 miles from the library. Key lives 100 times that distance from the nearest amusement park. How many miles does he live from the nearest amusement park?

Answer 1

The distance between Key's house and the amusement park is 1150 miles.

Explanation:

In order to solve this question we can attribute a variable to the distance between Key's house and the amusement park, this variable will be called 'x'. Since this distance, that we want to know, is 100 times greater than the distance between James's house and the library that is 11.5 miles we can express it by the following equation:

x = 100*11.5 = 1150 miles