Determine the scale of the map, if the distance between settlements on the terrain is 75 km, and on the map – 1.5 cm.

Determine the scale of the map, if the distance between settlements on the terrain is 75 km, and on the map – 1.5 cm. The distance between Moscow and St. Petersburg is 650 km. On the map, the distance between these cities is 2 cm. Determine the scale of this map.

We translate everything into meters and divide more by less. The first task: 75km = 75,000m = 7,500,000 cm.7.5 million divided by 1.5 = 5 million => The first map has a scale of 1 to 5,000,000 Second task: 650 km = 650,000 m = 65,000,000 cm. Scale = 65mln / 2 = 1 in 32,500,000