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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.

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Answer:

27 km

Explanation:


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

x= 5.4(5)
x= 27 km

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