Question

The area of a piece of land on a map whose scale is 1:50000 is 14.8cm squared.Find the area of the same piece of land on a map whose scale is 1:100000

Answer 1

scale of 1:50 000 means that every centimetre on the map is equal to 50 000 centimetres (500 metres) in reality.

The distance between two towns on that map is 6cm, therefore in reality there’s 6 * 50 000 = 300 000 centimetres, which is equal to 3 000 metres, which is equal to 3 kilometres.

The towns are 3 kilometres apart