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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