SOLUTION: two towns are actually 150 miles apart on a map,they are 3 inches apart.What is the scale being used?

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Question 181692: two towns are actually 150 miles apart on a map,they are 3 inches apart.What is the scale being used?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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two towns are actually 150 miles apart on a map,they are 3 inches apart.What is the scale being used?
It's 50 miles per inch.
To express it as a ratio,
50 miles = 50 miles * 5280 feet/mile * 12 inch/foot
= 3168000 inches
So it's 3,168,000:1