Question

A map is drawn using the scale 1 ratio 10 lakh to cities are 2.5 cm apart on the map what is the actual distance between two cities

Answer 1

Answer:

250000 cm / 2500 m /2.5 km

Explanation:

let the actual distance between the two places be x

1/100000=2.5/x

cross multiplication....

x= 2.5 × 100000

x= 250000 cm

x= 2500 m

x= 2.5 km

Answer 2

Answer:

2.5 Km

Explanation:

The scale of 1:100000 means that one cm in the map represent 100000 cm on the ground or 1 km on the ground.

Therefore 2.5 cm apart between the cities in the map represents

2.5 X 1 km= 2.5 km

Therefore the actual distance between two cities is 2.5 kilometres.

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