Deval is leading a parking lot project. He has been asked to mark parking spaces on a stretch of road 0.264 kilometers long. There are to be 60 parking spaces marked. How many meters long should Deval instruct his crew to make each parking​ space?

Question

Each parking space should be
  
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Answer 1

To find out how long each parking space should be, we first need to convert the length of the road from kilometers to meters.

1 kilometer is equal to 1000 meters, so:

\[ 0.264 \text{ km} = 0.264 \times 1000 = 264 \text{ meters} \]

Now we need to divide the total length of the parking area (264 meters) by the number of parking spaces (60) to find the length of each parking space:

\[ \text{Length of each parking space} = \frac{264 \text{ meters}}{60} = 4.4 \text{ meters} \]

Therefore, each parking space should be 4.4 meters long.