Question

A scale drawing showing the distance from your house to the school has a scale of 1.5 cm to 5 km. If the actual distance from your house to the school is 30 km, what is the distance on the drawing?

Answer 1

Distance on scale = 1.5cm

Actual distance = 5 km

distance between house and school = 30 km

distance on map =

$30 \times \frac{1.5}{5}$

$6 \times 1.5$

9 cm

so distance on map is 9 cm