Catherine is at the Supermarket, and knows that she is 50 yards from her school. The map on her phone shows that the school is \
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Answer:
<em>Answer: b 200 yards</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Scaling</u>
Real magnitudes can be scaled up or down to adapt to the size of a sheet of paper or the screen of a computer or phone.
Catherine knows she is 50 yards from the school and it's shown as a distance of 3/4 inch on her phone map.
We can calculate the scaling factor from the real distance to the map distance by dividing:
Now she sees that she's 3 inches from home on the same map. This is equivalent to a real distance of:
Catherine is 200 yards from her home.
Answer: b 200 yards
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