SOLUTION: A town map has a scale of 1:45,000. a). A street in this town is 850 m long. How long is that street on this map? Round to the nearest tenth. b). How long, in reality, is a

Question 1133626: A town map has a scale of 1:45,000.
a). A street in this town is 850 m long. How long is that street on this map? Round to the nearest tenth.
b). How long, in reality, is a road that measures 5.4 cm on the map?

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Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A town map has a scale of . =>1143
a). A street in this town is long. How long is that street on this map? Round to the nearest tenth.
distance on the map is measured in cm

Distance on the map:

b). How long, in reality, is a road that measures on the map?

....convert to meters

a road that measures on the map, in reality is long

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