Lake Texcoco, which became Tenochtitlán is now entirely gone because Mexico City is there. It covered an area of 2.1 x 10^3 square miles. Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, covers an area of 3.232 x 10^4 square miles. About how many times as great is the area covered by Lake Titicaca as opposed to the Lake that the Aztecs built on?

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Cloe Cantrell

18 September, 22:18

Lake Texcoco, which became Tenochtitlán is now entirely gone because Mexico City is there. It covered an area of 2.1 x 10^3 square miles. Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, covers an area of 3.232 x 10^4 square miles. About how many times as great is the area covered by Lake Titicaca as opposed to the Lake that the Aztecs built on?

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Aracely Ibarra · Answer 1

To solve the question, we will estimate how many times Titicaca was larger than Texcoco. Here we shall use the formula:

(Area of Titicaca) / (Area of Texcoco)

Area of Titicaca=3.232*10^4

Area of Texcoco=2.1*10^3

thus the number of times as great is the area covered by Lake Titicaca as opposed to the Lake that the Aztecs built on

(3.232 * 10^4) / (2.1 * 10^3)

=15.391 times