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The distance between two towns on a map is 9 centimeters.The actual distance between two towns is 63 kilometers. What is the scale on the map?

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Answer:

1 : 700 000

Step-by-step explanation:

63 km = 6 300 000 cm

Make it a proportion:

9 cm - 6 300 000 cm

1 cm - x cm

x = [tex]\frac{6 300 000 * 1}{9}[/tex] = 700 000 cm

Here we get that in map 1 cm represents 700 000 cm in reality, so the scale is 1 : 700 000

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