Chapter 6.6, Problem 14E

To determine

To find:The actual distance from the map scale

Answer to Problem 14E

The actual distance will be 130 kilometres

Explanation of Solution

Given information :

Consider the information provided, the map distance be 26 centimetres

Calculations:

Assume the distance on map be $x$

distance on the map has a scale of 1 centimetre :5 kilometres and the distance on the map is 26 centimetres.

Therefore,

The equationis -

  $\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{5}=\frac{26}{\text{x}}\\ =\text{x = 5}\times 26\\ =\text{x = 130}\end{array}$

Therefore, the actual distance will be 130kilometres.