Gia's bus route to school is 5 1/2 miles. the bus route home is 1 3/5 times as long. how long is gia's bus route home? show work

Well, let's take this question by each sentence

Gia's bus route from home to school =

Gia's bus route from school to home is times as long

here 'as long' means the route from home to school mentioned earlier

that is

so times as long means

times

= X

It is easier to multiply when we have our fractions in the proper form

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lets simplify this fraction to the mixed form

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This simplifies to

or

Hence Gia's route from school to home is miles

answer: 2x + 2 − 2 = 10 − 2; subtraction property of equality

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