Use the map of Africa below to answer the following question. Notice the scale in the lower left corner of the map, which shows that .5 inch is equivalent to 500 miles and 1 inch is equivalent to 1,000 miles.

A map of the continent of Africa. Various trade routes connect kingdoms of West Africa (Mali, Ghana, and Songhai) with North Africa, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula. The scale shows that half an inch equals 500 miles and 1 inch equals 1,000 miles. The cities of Gao and Timbuktu are approximately 3 tenths of an inch apart.
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Based on the map, what was the approximate distance between Gao and Timbuktu? (1 point)

100 miles

300 miles

500 miles

700 miles

B- The distance between the cities of Gao and Timbuktu is approximately 300 miles as they are about three-tenth of an inch apart from each other in distance on the map.

The distance is easily calculated by the way of simple division as all the material facts required to calculate the approximate distance between the two cities are given in the query itself.

The distance between 1000 miles on the map of Africa takes the space of 1 inch. We've been also given the information that half an inch equals to five hundred miles.

So, to calculate the distance between Gao and Timbuktu which is denoted by three tenth of an inch we can easily calculate them as one tenth of an inch will be equal to 100 miles that is derived by dividing 1000 miles=1 inch by 10

The three tenth of such calculation will therefore be 100 miles multiplied by 3 i.e., 300 miles. SO we have our distance calculated as three hundred miles.

Hence, the correct option is B that the distance between Gao and Timbuktu is 300 miles.

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