Question

Sean is taking some friends on a picnic. They'll need to follow a path to get to the picnic spot. A map of the path is based on a scale of 1:30,000, in cm.
- If the path is 20cm on the map, how many kilometers is the actual path

Answer 1

For every 1 cm on the map, there is 30,000cm in real life. We have 20 cm on the map, so there is 600,000cm on the actual path. Now, we need to convert this to km. There are 100,000cm per kilometer, so in 600,000cm, there are 6km