Question

Patricia is looking over a map of her local area and notices that the scale of the map is given as 1:100 in the map legend.

Find the actual distance (in centimeters) between two points which are drawn 7 cm apart on that map.

Answer 1

700cm

Explanation:

use basic proportion;

if scale = 1 : 100

then 7 : ?more

so 7/1 x 100 = 700cm