Karen Morrison and Nick Hamshaw Solutions for Exercise 1: Exercise 15.1

On the plan of a house, the living room is $3.4 cm$ long and $2.6 cm$ wide. The scale of the plan is $1 cm \text{to} 2 m$. Calculate the actual length and width of the room.

The actual distance between two villages is $12 km$. Calculate the distance between the villages on a map whose scale is $1 cm \text{to} 4 km$.

The actual distance between two villages is $12 km$. Calculate the distance between the villages on a map whose scale is $1 cm \text{to} 5 km$.

A car ramp is $28 m$ long and makes an angle of $15°$ with the horizontal. A scale drawing is to be made of the ramp using a scale of $1 cm \text{to} 5 m$.

How long will the ramp be on the drawing?