Question

A map has a scale of 1 cm : 15.5 km. Two cities are 2.3 cm apart on the map. To the nearest tenth of a kilometer, what is the actual distance corresponding to the map distance?

38 km
51.2 km
35.7 km
113.2 km

Answer 1

35.7km

Explanation:

Answer 2

You will need to multiply 15.5 by 2.3. Keep in mind that this only works because the scale is 1cm but if it was say.... 3.4cm:15.5 you wouldn't be able to use that method. Yeah so the answer is 35.65 which rounds up to →35.7← because the second decimal place is five