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Anna is a sales person who has jobs this week in cities within North Carolina and South Carolina. On a map, these two cities are 50 centimeters apart. The map uses a scale of 2 centimeters = 4 kilometers. What is the actual distance between these cities?Gavin goes to the market and buys one rectangle shaped board. The length of the board is 16 cm and the width of the board is 10 cm. If he wants to add a 2 cm wooden border around the board, what will be the area of the rectangle board?

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Anna is a sales person who has jobs this week in cities within North Carolina and South Carolina. On a map, these two cities are 50 centimeters apart. The map uses a scale of 2 centimeters = 4 kilometers. What is the actual distance between these cities?

Applying the Rule of Three that allows you to solve problems based on proportions.

Distance of the two cities= 50 cm

The map uses a scale of 2 centimeters = 4 kilometers.

Answer: The actual distance between these cities is 100 km