For your job, you often fly between Seattle and Miami. The distance between cities is 3,724 miles. You earn a free flight after you accumulate 43,000 miles of travel. How many round trips (back and forth) must you make between Seattle & Miami in order to earn a free flight?

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Bridget Underwood

3 October, 09:54

For your job, you often fly between Seattle and Miami. The distance between cities is 3,724 miles. You earn a free flight after you accumulate 43,000 miles of travel. How many round trips (back and forth) must you make between Seattle & Miami in order to earn a free flight?

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Cody Strong · Answer 1

6 round trip flights

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to calculate the miles for a round trip flight you would multiply 3724x2 = 7448. How many round trip flights must you take to accumulate 43,000 miles?

To find out you would divide 43,000 by 7448. This leaves you with a long decimal of approximately 5.77. You would round up in this occasion because you need 43,000 or more miles to get a free flight. Therefore you would need 6 round trip flights.