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1. Pia printed two maps of a walking trail. The length of the trail on the first map is 9 cm. The length of the trail

on the second map is 6 cm.
The scale factor on the first map is such that 1 cm represents 2 km on the actual trail. What is the length
of the actual trail? Show your work and label!
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User Puhlen
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The person on the top is correct good explanation!!!
User Sali Hoo
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Given:

Two trail maps:

Trail on the first map = 8 cm

Trail on the second map = 6 cm

Scale on first map = 1 cm : 2 km

A) What is the scale factor from the map to the actual trail?

For the first map, the scale factor is 1 cm: 2km. Therefore the actual trail is 8 centimeters * 2 kilometers = 16 km.

The scale factor of the second map is 16 km / 6 cm = 2.67 km : 1 cm

B) The length of the actual trail is 16 kilometers.

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