The distance between two villages on the map is 3.6 cm. Find the distance between

The distance between two villages on the map is 3.6 cm. Find the distance between the villages on the ground, if the scale of the map is 1: 200,000?

The scale on the map gives an idea of how the real distance between points A and B and their corresponding objects on the map are related. Therefore, if the scale is 1/200000, this means that there is 20,000,000 cm of real area per 1 cm on the map.

Let’s make a proportion. Let x be the real distance between villages.

3.6 / x = 1/200000.

We express x as follows:

x = 3.6 * 200,000 / 1 = 3.6 * 200,000 = 720,000 cm or 7.2 km.

Answer: the distance between the villages is 720,000 cm or 7.2 km.