Question

Spencer owns horses, and the nearest horse vet is 8 centimeters away from Spencers stable on a map. If the scale of the map is 1 centimeter = 7 kilometers, then what is the actual distance between Spencers stable and the vet?

Answer 1

The actual distance is 56 km

Explanation:

We can use ratio's to solve this problem

1 cm 8cm

---------- = -----------------

7 km x km

Using cross products

1 * x = 8 * 7

x = 56

x = 56 km