Question

Is this right?



Nicole is taking some friends on a picnic. they'll need to follow a path to get to the picnic spot. A map of the path is based on a scale of 1:10,000 in cm. If the path is 12 cm on the map, how many Kilometers is the actual path?

Answer 1

Is it 12km?

Answer 2

No

Use the conversion factor 1 map cm = 10,000 actual cm

so 12 map cm * 1000 actual cm/1 map cm

Map cm units cancel and we are left with 120,000 actual cm

There are 100 cm in one meter and 1000 meters in 1 km

Does that help?

Answer 3

1.2km?

Answer 4

@znimon

Answer 5

Nice job