On a map with scale 1: 50 000 a square piece of land of actual area 0.64 hectares has a length of x cm on the map. Find x.

      

On a map with scale 1: 50 000 a square piece of land of actual area 0.64 hectares has a length of x cm on the map. Find x.

  

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John
1: 50 000

1 cm rep 50 000 cm

1 cm rep 500 m

1 cm2 rep 250 000 m2

1 $cm^2$ rep $\frac{250 000}{100}$ = 25 hectares

$\frac{1 \times 0.64}{25}$ = 0.0256

x = $\sqrt 0.0256$ = 0.16 cm
johnmulu answered the question on June 12, 2017 at 07:30


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