Question

Here is a map of a town.
It has a scale of 1 : 400,000.
A centimetre ruler is shown on the map.
What is the real-life distance between the park and the theatre?
Give your answer in km.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The scale is just expressed 1:200000 (no km). That means that things in the map are 200,000 times smaller than in real life, or, in other words, one centimeter in the map equals 200,000 cm in real life. To convert to meters we just take out two zeros: 1 cm = 2,000 m. And to convert to km we just take three more zeros: 1cm = 2km. And there’s your answer.