Question

The length of a river is 480 km. What is its length on a map with a scale 1:5,000,000?

Answer 1

Answer:

PLEASE MARK BRAINLIEST

the answer is 9.6 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The length of the river on a map is $9.6\ cm$

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

The scale of the map is $1:5,000,000$

That means

1 cm on a map is 5,000,000 cm on the actual

or

1 cm on a map is 50 km cm on the actual

so

using proportion

$\frac{1}{50}\frac{cm}{km}=\frac{x}{480}\frac{cm}{km}\\ \\x=480/50\\ \\x=9.6\ cm$