can you help me with one question. I don't get this one at all.
it says a charity bike ride has three stages.

stage 1 - machester to leeds
stage 2 - leeds to carlisle
stage 3 = carlisle to edinburgh

the distance in km, between the cities are shown below

machester
64 leeds
160 148 carlisle
279 260 119 edinburgh

calculate the total distance of the bike ride

do I just total everything up?

Is that a map or a table? :confused:

Its meant to be a table but when I posted it, it come out like that for some reason

If I understand the table well, then:
64 is the distance between manchester and leeds;
160 is the distance between manchester and carlisle;
279 is the distance between manchester and edinburg;
148 is the distance between leeds and carlisle;
260 is the distance between leeds and edinburg;
119 is the distance between carlisle and edinburg.

I pretty much think that's what it is, but it is asking me to calculate the total distance, how do I go about doing this

You need to find the total distance for the bike ride, which consists of 3 stages.

What are they, and how long is each?

I'm quite confused with this question, is the 1st stage 503. I added the first three numbers from manchester to the other citites

Okay, to make it clearer, what is the first stage (in terms of from where to where)?

The first stage is from machester to leeds, manchester to carlisle and then manchester to edinburgh?

Okay, what is the distance between manchester and leads?



If I understand the table well, then:
64 is the distance between manchester and leeds;
160 is the distance between manchester and carlisle;
279 is the distance between manchester and edinburg;
148 is the distance between leeds and carlisle;
260 is the distance between leeds and edinburg;
119 is the distance between carlisle and edinburg.

64

And the distance between Leeds and Carlisle?
Carlisle and Edinburg?

Add each now.

Leeds to carlisle is 148 and carlisle to edinburgh is 119. So total is 331?

Right.

So is that all that needed doing? Is that the total distance of the bike ride?

Yes, that is, if I understood the table well. With no other information, it's hard to figure out something for sure.

Okay thanks for your help