Asked by eden

Sarah wants to find out how long it will take her to walk from her house to her friend's house. On the map, it shows that Sarah's house is 4 cm from her friend's house. The ratio scale of the map is 1:50000. On average, it will take Sarah 10 mins to walk 1km. How long will it take Sarah to walk to her friend's house?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Scale 1:50,000 means 1 cm = 50,000 cm = 500 m = 0.5 km.
So 4 cm = 4 × 0.5 km = 2 km.
At 10 minutes per km, time = 2 × 10 = 20 minutes.