Question

48. A map is drawn to a scale of 1cm to represent 50km. if the actual distance between two villages is 480km, what is

the distance on the map?
A. 4.8cm B. 5.0cm C. 9.6cm
D. 48.0cm E. 2400.0cm
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Answer 1

C. 9.6 cm

Explanation:

This is all about unit rate. In this scenario the unit rate is 50/1 and for 480 km that fraction would be 480/x so we could either do cross multiplication or divide across the numerator and denominators. Let's divide. 480/50 is equal to 9.6. Seeing as that is what helped us get from numerator a to numerator b we would then multiply that in our denominators. So, 1*9.6 is equal to 9.6 so the amount of cm for 480 km is 9.6 cm.

Answer 2

So the ratio is 1cm:50km and we’re trying to find out ?:480km
So do 480/50 = 9.6cm (our scale factor)
then 1x9.6 = 9.6cm

So the answer is C which is 9.6cm