Question

Monganville and Newton are 24 miles apart. On a map the two cities are 3 inches apart. What is the map scale?

Answer 1

One inch equals 8 miles, or in math terms, this is how we figure It out...

$24m = 3in$

To find the scale we need to find what one inch equals on the map, dmto do this we divide both sides by 3 in. and get 8 miles in reality equals one map inch.