Question

A plot of land has an area of 400000 m3. It is represented on the map by an area of 40 cm 3
(i) Find the scale factor of the map. (ii) What distance on the map would a distance of 2.4 km be ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1cm on a map represents 4000000

5cm on a map represents =5×4000000=20,000,000‬cm

1km=1000m

1m=100cm

∴1km=1000×100=100000cm

∴100000cm=1km

∴20,000,000‬cm=

100000

20,000,000‬

km=200km

Thus, the actual distance between two towns is 200km.