Question

The map shows the territories in Australia.

Using the map's scale, what is the approximate straight-

line distance between the cities of Darwin and Brisbane?

Australia

0

Darwin

1,000

km

Northen

Territory

O 2,500 km

O2,000 km

O 1,800 km

O 1,500 km

Ashburton

Queensland

Western

Australia

Perth

Daring New

South

Australia

Brisbane

South

Wales Sydney

Adelaide Murray

Victoria Canberra

N

Melbourne

W E

S

Hobarth

Road

Railway

River

* National capital

Answer 1

Option B. 2,000 km

Step-by-step explanation:

The scale used shows that the distance between the two cities is 2000 km.

For your understanding, if the scale is 100 km per mm then this means that 1 mm distance on the map is equal to 100 km. If we start measuring the distance between two cities by a straight line then we find that the distance was 20 mm.

Mathematically:

1 mm = 100 km

20 * 1 mm = 100 km * 20

This implies that:

20 mm = 2000 km