What does "A que distancia.." mean? Please help!!

Question

Hello! have to record a brief dialogue with an online partner and the prompt for the dialogue is: ¿A qué distancia...? Interview your partner to find out the distance between Madrid and various locations.

This is kind of a vague assignment, but I am assuming since it is the title of the assignment, the questions have to start with "A que distancia.."? I think we need to ask questions like "At what distance is Madrid from Barcelona"? But I am not sure. I truly need your help. Could you give me an example of how you would ask a question related to this starting with "A que distancia?" Does that essentially translate to "How far...?" I know we recently learned how to say large numbers, so maybe that will be incorporated in our answers. Thank you so much!!!

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Answer 1

I guess you're right.

The translation of "A que distancia" is "how far" i belive that the problem will be the answer.

Like you say, you recently learned how to say large number, i don´t know as the distance is measured in spain.

In México we answer the cuestion for hours, kilometers, miles.

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For example:

La distancia en línea recta entre Monterrey (Nuevo León) y Ciudad de México (Distrito Federal) es de 705,12 km, pero la distancia en ruta es de 914 kilometros.

Se tardan 10h 2 min en ir de Monterrey a Ciudad de México en auto, lo que requeriría un consumo de 55 litros de combustible. El gasto de este viaje sería de unos 796,54 pesos. Se emitirían 137 kilos de CO2 si viajas de Monterrey a Ciudad de México con un auto medio que emita 150 gCO2/km.

Fuente: http://mx.lasdistancias.com/distancia-de-monterrey-a-ciudad-de-mexico

Answer 2

Well, '¿A qué distancia?' means that the answer must be given in numbers -distance.

'¿Cuan lejos? -literaly 'How far?-' would indicate that the answer could accept time as a measure.

I think I once heard that europeans find it odd/vague to express distance with time, so I doubt that a spaniard would find it useful to be told that Madrid is two hours away from Sevilla.

I'm hoping this helped you