Question

A map show a town with an area of 3.5 inches.If the map has a scale of 1 inch:4 miles,what is the actual area of the town?

Answer 1

The actual area of the town is 14 miles.

Explanation:

Since you know that the scale is 1 inch:4 miles and that the map shows a town with an area of 3.5 inches, you can expressed this as follows:

Scale: 1 inch:4 miles

map area: 3.5 inches

If the actual area is x, you can say that:

3.5:x=1:4

This would be:

`(3.5)/(x)=(1)/(4)`

Now, you can solve for x:

x=(3.5*4)/1

x=14

According to this, the answer is that the actual area of the town is 14 miles.