School work Questions

Question

45 The distance between two locations on a map is 4g inches. If the map scale is

2 inches = 40 miles, what is the actual

distance between the two locations?

Answer 1

if distance on the map is 4 inches

and 2 inches = 40 miles

then actual distance is

(4/2)40 = 2(40) = 80 miles

between the two locations