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HELP!!! Pia printed two maps of a walking trail. The length of the trail on the first map is 9cm. The length of the trail on the second map is 6cm.

The scale factor on the first map is such that 1cm represents 2km on the actual trail. What is the length of the actual trail? PLEASE SHOW YOUR WORK!!!!

HELP!!! Pia printed two maps of a walking trail. The length of the trail on the first-example-1
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If the length of the trail on map A is 9 centimeters, and the scale factor is a centimeter to 2 kilometers, the actual length of the trail would be 18 kilometers.
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