Question

The distance on the map between Yappy city and Quiet city is 23 cm.

Answer 1

The actual distance between Yappy city and Quiet city when it is 23 cm in map is 9.2 miles.

What is scaling ?

It is the technique to resize drawing with comparing to actual size of object which uses proportion or ratio. For example, Mapping of earth, drawing prototype of automobiles.

It is given that :

The distance on the map between Yappy city and Quiet city is 23 cm

and,

5cm = 2 miles

now, for 1 cm on map it is equal to 2/5 miles of actual distance.

Therefore to find the actual distance of 23 cm in map we simply multiply 23 with 2/5 :

actual distance :

2/5 x 23 = 9.2 miles

Therefore, the actual distance between Yappy city and Quiet city is 9.2 miles.

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