Please help ill mark you the brainlist The scale on a map indicates that 1 cm represents 50 km. If two cities are 400 km apart, then how far apart would the cities be on this map?

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Answer:

8 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

divide 400 by 50 which is 8.

Answer:

8 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

Bassically this a direct variation problem so we can set up a proportion (if it was inverse, we could not have) so

1=50

x=400    

*cross multiply*"

400=5x you will get

solve for x*

400/5=8

x=8 cm (dont forget the unit if writing this is paper homework!)