Two towns that are 31.5 km apart are 3 cm apart on a map. What is the scale of the map?
Divide.
31.5 / 3 = ______ km per cm
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Reiny bruh you are all types of wrong. Literally all you have to do is this:
31.5/3
=10.5
1 cm = 10.5 km
THE ANSWER IS 10.5!!!
the answer is 10.5 100% positive
I'm so confused!
It asked for the scale.
3 cm : 31.5 km
= 3 cm : 31.5 x 1000 x 100 cm
= 3 : 3,150,000
= 1 : 1,050,000
To determine the scale of the map, we need to find the ratio between the actual distance between the towns and the distance on the map.
We know that the towns are 31.5 km apart in reality, and they are 3 cm apart on the map.
To find the scale, we can set up a proportion:
31.5 km / x = 3 cm / 1
We can rearrange this proportion to solve for x (the scale):
x = (31.5 km * 1) / 3 cm
x = 31.5 km / 3 cm
Now we need to make sure the units are consistent. We can convert the kilometers to centimeters (since the observed distance is in centimeters) by noting that 1 kilometer is equal to 100,000 centimeters.
x = (31.5 km * 100,000 cm/km) / 3 cm
x = 3,150,000 cm / 3 cm
Now we can simplify:
x = 1,050,000
Therefore, the scale of the map is 1:1,050,000.