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Q. A scale of 1cm to 2km is used for a map.

 

1. If the actual area of a lake is 18.000.000 square meter, calculate its area on the map.

 

in my opinion,  the answer should be 4.500 square cm   but why does it come to 4.5 square cm?

 Mar 17, 2017
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4.5 square cm is the same thing as 4.500 square cm,

just like 7 is the same thing as 07  is the same thing as 000007. smiley

 Mar 17, 2017
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Thank you for your answer Guest1 

 

Please understand i am a newbie for math.

 Mar 17, 2017
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Ok I don't know if you will see this, but I just realized that the answer I gave you was probably wrong because I forgot that some places use " . " as a seperator for thousands, not a decimal. In the rest of this post, I will just put spaces to separate thousands to avoid confusion.

 

actual area of the lake = 18 000 000 square meters

actual area of the lake = 18 000 000 / 1000square kilometers

actual area of the lake = 18 000 000 / 1 000 000 square kilometers

actual area of the lake = 18 square kilometers

 

map area of the lake = 18 / 22 square cm

map area of the lake = 18 / 4 square cm

map area of the lake = 4.5 square cm         <---(That " . " is a decimal)

 Mar 17, 2017

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