Question

What is a graphical scale? What is its importance?

Answer 1

Instructions:

• Explain the graphical scale
• State its importance

Solution:

• Graphical scale is represented by a straight line divided into segments
• Scale or representative fraction shows map distance to the corresponding ground distance
• Importance:
  • Graphical scale changes as per the changing size of the map.
  • The line of the graphical scale enlarges or reduces along with
  • the map.