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On a map, every 5 cm represents 250 kilometres. What distance would be represented by a 3 cm line?

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On a map, every 5 cm represents 250 kilometres. What distance would be represented by a 3 cm line?

We set up a proportion of map cm distance to kilometers where k is the kilometers represented by a 3cm line
5/250 = 3/k

To solve this proportion for k, we type it in our search engine and we get:
k = 150
 
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