A map has a scale of 1 cm to 50 m. On the map, a road is 3 cm long. What is the real length of the road?
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Read and construct scale drawings, applying scales to find lengths in real life and on the drawing.
A map has a scale of 1 cm to 50 m. On the map, a road is 3 cm long. What is the real length of the road?
On a scale drawing using the scale 1 cm to 4 m, a wall is drawn 5 cm long. Find the real length of the wall.
[1 mark]A map uses a scale of 1 : 25 000. Two towns are 8 cm apart on the map. Find the actual distance between them, in kilometres.
[2 marks]A floor plan uses a scale of 1 cm to 2 m. A room is 14 m long in real life. Find the length of the room on the plan, in centimetres.
[2 marks]A model car is 12 cm long. The real car is 4.8 m long. What is the scale factor of the model to the real car?
A scale drawing uses the scale 1 cm to 50 m. A rectangular field on the drawing measures 8 cm by 5 cm.
Find the real dimensions of the field.
[2 marks]Find the real area of the field, in square metres.
[1 mark]A road on a map measures 4.5 cm. The map's scale is 1 : 200 000. Find the real length of the road, in kilometres.
[2 marks]A scale drawing uses a scale of 1 : 1 000. A region on the drawing has an area of 6 cm². Find the real area of the region, in square metres.
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