An oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour. At this rate, how many square kilometers will it cover in 2 hours?

Answer 1

To find out how many square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we need to first calculate how many square kilometers it covers per hour.
Since the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 hour, we can calculate the coverage per hour by multiplying 4 by the number of quarters in an hour, which is 4.
So the oil spill covers 4 * 4 = <<4*4=16>>16 square kilometers in one hour.
At this rate, it will cover 16 * 2 = <<16*2=32>>32 square kilometers in 2 hours. Answer: \boxed{32}.