Question

Simplify this map scale 1cm:5km

Answer 1

This problem belongs to comparing quantities.

we have 1 cm :5km

we have different units in our ratio so we need to convert km as cm so we can have same units here.

we know that

1 km =1000m

5km=5000m

100cm=1m

5000m=500000cm

1cm:500000cm =1÷500000 units will be cancels as we have same unit on to and bottom

1÷500000=0.000002 this is the simplified form of given ratio