Question

A marathon is about 26 miles long. Which of these shows how to convert 26 miles to feet?
StartFraction 26 miles Over 1 EndFraction times StartFraction 1 foot Over 5,280 miles EndFraction
StartFraction 26 miles Over 1 EndFraction times StartFraction 1 mile Over 5,280 feet EndFraction
StartFraction 26 miles Over 1 EndFraction times StartFraction 5,280 feet Over 1 mile EndFraction
StartFraction 26 miles Over 1 EndFraction times StartFraction 5,280 miles Over 1 foot EndFraction

Answer 1

you need to know that 1 mile = 5280 feet

in this case using the rule of 3 simple you can write

1 mile mean 5280 feet
26 miles mean x feet cross multiplie and get the x value

x = 26 *5280 / 1 = ?

so you need to check from these choices what say the same like this above wrote for x

hope helped understandably