Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone Wire Fiasco

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, it took a long time for the call to reach its destination. If it takes the telephone call 1/6 of a minute to travel 5 miles, then how long will it take for a phone call to go from Atlanta to Macon?

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Key

½ an inch= 5 miles

Take 5 minutes to think about how you would solve this problem. Think about the steps that you would take. Then talk to your group members to see

the steps that they came up with.

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Ideas to get you started…

Decide which words are important to the problem.

Pick out what you have to first to begin solving the problem.

Don’t forget the distance is important.

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