A road map has a scale of 1: 50000. The length of the road on the map is 8.5cm. Work out the length of the real road in km
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5882.35 km is the answer
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Step-by-step explanation:To work out the distance in real life, we need to multiply this length by 50000.
This gives 3 cm × 50000 = 150000 cm which is 1500 m or 1.5 km.
Alternatively, we could have just remembered that each 1 cm on the map is 0.5 km in real life.
Hence, 3 cm on the map must be 3 × 0.5 km = 1.5 km in real life.
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