Question

The real distance between a village hall and a shop is 1.5 km. The distance between them on a map is 5 cm. What is a scale of the map answer as a ratio in its simplest form.

Answer 1

....We convert 1.5km into cm :

1.5km = 150000cm

map scale: 5/150000=1/30000

The scale of a map or plan is calculated by dividing the distance measured on the map (in centimetres) by the actual distance (in centimetres). This is expressed in the formula :map distance/actual distance