The scale of the map is 1: 250000. The distance between two villages on the map is 16 cm.

The scale of the map is 1: 250000. The distance between two villages on the map is 16 cm. What is the distance between these villages on the terrain?

The problem is given a scale of 1: 250000.

Accordingly, 1 cm on the map = 250,000 cm in reality.

This means that 16 cm = 16 * 250,000 = 4,000,000 cm in reality.

Let’s translate 4,000,000 cm into kilometers.

100 cm = 1 m.

1000 m = 1 km.

This means that 100,000 cm = 1 km.

4000000 cm = 40 km.

Answer: the real distance between the villages is 40 km.