For your job, you often fly between Seattle and Miami. The distance between these cities is 2,724 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 and Miami in order to earn a free flight?

Answer:Approximately 8 round trips

Step-by-step explanation:

The distance between Seattle and Miami is 2,724 miles.

The distance of a round trip is the total distance that you cover when you travel from Seattle to Miami and return from Miami to Seattle. Therefore

Round trip = 2 * 2724 = 5448 miles

You earn a free flight after you accumulate 43,000 miles of travel. This means that the number of round trips that you must make between Seattle and Miami in order to earn a free flight would be

43000/5448 = 7.89

Approximately 8 round trips

So you would multiply 2,724 by two since it is a round trip. Then you would divide 43,000 by that number to get the number.