Question

The distance between school and house of a girl is given by 5 cm in a picture, using the scale 1 cm : 5 km. Find the actual distance between the two places?

Answer 1

Given scale = 1 cm : 5 km, i.e. 1 cm in picture = 5 km of actual distance
$\therefore$ 5 cm in picture = 5 $\times$ 5 km of actual distance
Hence, the actual distance between the two places is 25 km.
So, 5 cm represent = 5 $\times$ 5 = 25 km distance