James lives 3.42 kilometers from school. megan lives 0.76 kilometer from school. the distance james lives from school is how many times as long as the distance megan lives from school? show your work.

Since James is further and Megan is closer. 

You would take James's distance and divide it by Megan's distance.

3.42/0.76 = 4.5 

So James  is 4.5 times as long as Megan's.

When rates are expressed as a quantity of 1, such as 2 feet per second or 5 miles per hour, they are called unit rates. if you have a multiple-unit rate such as 120 students for every 3 buses, and want to find the single-unit rate, write a ratio equal to the multiple-unit rate with 1 as the second term.