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Question
An oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 14 of an hour. At this rate, how many square kilometers will it cover in 2 hours?(1 point)
Responses

32 square kilometers
32 square kilometers

8 square kilometers
8 square kilometers

16 square kilometers
16 square kilometers

2 square kilometers

1 answer

To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion.

Since the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour, the rate is 4/(1/4) = 4 * 4 = 16 square kilometers per hour.

To find the number of square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we can multiply the rate by the time: 16 * 2 = 32.

Therefore, the oil spill will cover 32 square kilometers in 2 hours.