Question

The Gomes family is on a road trip.On the first day,they drove a distance shown as 3 1/2 inches on a map.The actual distance that they drove was 245 miles.Which is the scale of the map?

Answer 1

.You could use proportions which is 245/3.5 = x/1. Which is x= 70. So the ratio or scale is 1 in : 70 miles.