Homework Help: algebra

Posted by 1carriebear on Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 11:39pm.

An airplane traveled from Boston to Las Vegas making
a stop in St. Louis. The plane traveled 2410 miles altogether,
which is 230% of the distance from Boston to St. Louis.
Find the distance from Boston to St. Louis to the nearest mile.

The answer is 1048 how do you get this answer

algebra - Martin, Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 2:50am
230% of the distance from Boston to St. Louis = 2.3 times the distance from Boston to St. Louis

With that information, you have that :

2.3 x (distance from Boston to St. Louis) = 2410

And you just divide both side of the equation by 2.3.

2410 divided by 2.3 is very close to 1048.

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