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A map uses the scale 3 cm for every 50 km If Dora measures a distance of 9 cm on the map, what is the actual distance?
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A map uses the scale 3 cm for every 50 km

If Dora measures a distance of 9 cm on
the map, what is the actual distance?

User Tomas Langkaas
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Let the distance be x

  • 3/50=9/x
  • 3x=9(50)
  • 3x=450
  • x=450/3
  • x=150km
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