The Scale of a map is given as 1:200000. two cities are 3 cm a part on the map. Calculate the actual distance between them.
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actual distance= 600000units
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scale 1:200000 means one centimeter on the map is 200000 cm on ground (which is 2000m or 2.0 km)
Using the Cross-multiplication - Wikipedia you get something like this:
2 km ……. 1 cm
12 km ……. ?
? = 12*1/2 = 6 cmhop it help u
k2003:
if u are having doubt in cross multiplication then check it on wikipedia it is clearly mentioned there
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