Question

A gas station is 33 miles away. Using the following conversion: 1 mile is 1.6 kilometers, how far is the gas station in kilometers?

Answer 1

`52.8` kilometers.

Explanation:

Let `m` be the distance in miles, and `k` the distance in kilometers.

Then, we know that 1 mile is 1.6 kilometers, so,

`m/k = 1/1.6 => k = 1.6m`

Using this equation, we can "plug in" a value in miles and solve for `k` to get the distance in kilometers:

`33 * 1.6 = k => k = 52.8`.