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The distance between school and house of a girl is given by 5 cm in a picture, using the scale 1 cm : 5 km. Find the actual distance between the two places?

Given Scale = 1cm:5km i.e. 1cm in picture = 5km of actual distance

So, 5cm in picture = 5*5 km of actual distance


Hence, the actual distance between the two places is 25 km.


So,5cm represent = distance


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