Question

Below is a map of Yellowstone Park. The scale for the map is 1cm = 25 miles.

Mrs. Fowler went on a trip from Old Faithful to Canyon.

What is the actual distance from Old Faithful to Canyon in MILES?

A 5 miles

B 62.5 miles

C 15 miles

D 75 miles

Answer 1

Answer:

Option D. 75 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

Looking at the Yellowstone Park map we can see that Mrs. Folwer went from Old Faitful to the Canyon by covering a straight line of $3cm$.

This tells us that we do not need extra calculations to find the distance covered on the map. We also know that the map scale is given as $1cm=25miles$. So similarly we do not need to do extra ratio conversions.

Thus we know that if $1cm=25miles$ and she covered $3cm$ on the map, we can just multiply covered distance with the equivalency of $cm$ in $miles$ as follow:

$Distance=(3cm) (25 miles)=75miles$

Thus Mrs. Folwer's actual distance from Old Faithful to Canyon in Miles is 75 miles. (which is given in Option D.)