To find the distance between the bowling alley and the movie theater on the map, we need to convert the real distance of 16 miles into the map's scale.
The scale is 1 inch = 8 miles. To find out how many inches correspond to 16 miles, we can set up a simple calculation:
\[ \text{Distance on map (in inches)} = \frac{\text{Real distance (in miles)}}{\text{Scale (in miles per inch)}} \]
Substituting the values:
\[ \text{Distance on map} = \frac{16 \text{ miles}}{8 \text{ miles per inch}} = 2 \text{ inches} \]
So, the bowling alley and the movie theater are 2 inches apart on the map.