Question

If a bookstore on a map is 100 feet long on the ground, and we know that the bookstore is 0.5 inch long on the map.
A. What is a Word Scale?
B. What is the fraction scale of this map

Answer 1

Based on the bookstore distance on the ground and the length on the map, the word scale is 1 inch is to 200 feet.

The fraction scale of the map is 1 : 2,400.

What is the word scale?

The bookstore is such that 100 feet on the ground is equivalent to 0.5 inches on the map.

This means that every inch is:

= 100 / 0,5

= 200 feet

In word scale then every one inch on the map is 200 feet on the ground.

What is the fraction scale?

Fraction scales need to have the same units so convert feet to inches.

1 foot is 12 inches so the number of inches are:

= 200 x 12

= 2,400 inches

The fraction scale would be 1 : 2,400

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