Question

Aaron cycled along a straight path from his house to Bharat’s house. The scale of the map is 1 cm represents 5 km. The length of is 5.4 cm. Work out the distance, in kilometres, that Aaron cycled.

Answer 1

27 km

Explanation:

`(1)/(5)=(5.4)/(x)`
cross multiplication

x= 5.4(5)
x= 27 km