Question

The distance between two towns on a map is 9 centimeters.The actual distance between two towns is 63 kilometers. What is the scale on the map?

Answer 1

1 : 700 000

Explanation:

63 km = 6 300 000 cm

Make it a proportion:

9 cm - 6 300 000 cm

1 cm - x cm

x =
`(6 300 000 * 1)/(9)` = 700 000 cm

Here we get that in map 1 cm represents 700 000 cm in reality, so the scale is 1 : 700 000