Question

Plan a trip where you will start at one city, travel to a second city, travel to a third city, and then return to the original city. Assuming you could travel the direct straight-line distance between each pair of cities, how far will you travel all together? Write your total distance traveled in both decimal notation and scientific notation. Show all your work so it is clear what cities you are going to and in what order. Sita lives in Los Angeles, and her grandmother lives in Seattle. Sita plans to visit her grandmother three times in the next year. Assuming she travels the direct straight-line distance between the cities on each trip, what is the total distance she will travel to make these three trips? Write and evaluate an expression that uses multiplication to calculate the total distance traveled. Give your answer in both decimal notation and scientific notation. Using the table of distances, make up your own word problem that would require someone to use division to solve. Write the problem, and provide the solution.