Question

Adele and her friends are visiting chocolate shops in Wildgrove. They take a cab from one chocolate shop to another one that is 4.6 miles away. On a map, the two are separated by 4 inches. What is the scale of the map?Write your answer in simplest form using whole numbers.

Answer 1

23 miles: 20 inches

Explanation:

We know that the actual distance is 4.6 miles and the distance on the map is 4 inches, we must make them whole numbers, for that we multiply both by 5, just like this:

`\begin{gathered} 4.6\cdot5=23\text{ miles} \\ 4\cdot5=20\text{ inches} \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the scale on the map would be 20 inches representing 23 miles as the actual distance.