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1) Red City is 6 cm away from Blue City on a map but the two cities are actually 240 miles apart in real. What is the scale on the map?
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1) Red City is 6 cm away from Blue City on a map but the two cities are actually 240 miles

apart in real. What is the scale on the map?

User Songhir
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You divide 240 miles by 6 cm so you can figure out how many miles are in each centimeter. So 240/6=40 miles. The scale is for every one centimeter, that is 40 miles.
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