Miles.
Feet, miles, cubits, rods, furlongs, yards and fathoms would all be examples of customary units you could use. You could also use angstroms or parsecs, but those are inappropriate for distances such as here to the nearest mall.
You would divide 250 miles by 12.5 to find out how many miles is one inch. So the scale would be 1 in = 20 m
It would be yards.
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Since the US uses statute miles as a standard unit of distance, The distance between cities in Alabama would be expressed as miles.
They share a common border, so there is no distance between them. You would have to specify cities to get a distance.
You would use kilometers.
The customary unit would be miles (mi), and the metric unit would be kilometers (km).
not sure of the distance but I believe it would be Barrow, AK to Key west, FL
An average distance (according to driving time distance) between these two cities would last 21 minutes. However, it is only about 18.4 miles between the two cities.
Ex. the distance between two cities A kilometer is 1,000 meters
The distance between the cities of Bangor, Maine and Houlton, Maine is about 98 miles. To travel from Bangor to Houlton, you would go in a north to east direction.
Usually no. Say you need to fly to New York from Chicago. The resultant displacement would be the straightline distance between the two cities. But you fly through Atlanta (Everything seems to go through Atlanta). You would end up flying about twice the total distance between the cities.
Km is used for long distances. As the distance between two cities.
If the cities are close to each other, then you can treat them as if they were on a plane surface and the distance between them would be the scaled-up version of the distance between them on a map. However, if the cities are further apart then you need to take account of the fact that they are on a spherical surface. To do this you need to identify the plane which is defined by the two cities and the centre of the earth. This plane will meet the surface of the earth in what is known as the great arc, and the distance between the two cities is measure along the great arc. Incidentally, this is why flights from London to Tokyo, for example, fly over the North pole.
The distance between Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX is 1,436 miles. It would take you approximately 21 hours to drive between the two cities.