337,202 views
30 votes
30 votes
A map of the cafeteria was drawn by astudant. He used a scale of 2 cm to 3m.The drawing was 40 cm long. How longwas the cafeteria?

User John Glabb
by
3.3k points

1 Answer

15 votes
15 votes

The scale of the map of the cafeterua was drawn by;


2\operatorname{cm}\cong3m

If the drawing was 40cm long, then;


\begin{gathered} \text{The length of the cafeteria is;} \\ =\frac{40\operatorname{cm}*3m}{2\operatorname{cm}} \\ =60m \end{gathered}

Thus, the cafeteria is 60m long.

User Morton
by
2.9k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.