Maps Answers

On a map, San Francisco is 7.5 inches from San Diego. The actual distance is 500 miles. The same map shows that Fresno is 3.3 inches from Los Angeles. To the nearest mile, what is the actual distance from Fresno to Los Angeles?

Adam’s house is 2 centimeters from Juan’s house on a map. If each centimeter on the map represents 6 kilometers, how far apart are the two houses?

The scale on a map shows that 10 kilometers is represented by 4 centimeters. Which proportion can be used to find the actual distance, x, represented by 20 centimeters on the map?

Kim is drawing a map of the different schools in her school district. She knows that her middle school is 10.6 miles away from the middle school that her best friend attends. If every 2 inches on the map represents 5 miles, how far apart will the two schools be on the map, to the nearest tenth of an inch?

Katarina drew a map to plot her running path as shown below.If the total distance that she ran is 11.56 miles, how many miles does 1 inch on her map represent? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

On a map, two locations are 0.75 centimeter apart. Their actual distance is 15 kilometers apart. What scale could be shown on the map? Select three options.

Lyle knows that the distance from his house to his school is of a mile. On the map he has drawn of his neighborhood, they are of an inch apart. What scale could Lyle include on the map? Select three options.

The distance between Matt’s house and his school is 3 inches on the map. The actual distance is 1.5 miles. What is the scale of the map?

Barry’s pet turtle, Turtlelini, escaped from his backyard. Barry found Turtlelini by the creek and wanted to determine how far Turtlelini had walked. On the map, Barry’s house is 0.6 inch from the creek. If the scale on the map shows that 1.5 inches are equivalent to 0.8 mile, how far did Turtlelini walk, to the nearest tenth of a mile?

The scale on a map shows that 200 miles is represented by 5 inches on a map. Which proportion can be used to find the distance on the map, x, that represents 50 miles?