Question

Scale of a map can be expressed as ______
(A) Map distance between two points divided by ground distance between the same points
(B) Map distance between two points multiply by ground distance between the same points
(C) Ground distance between two points divided by map distance between the same points
(D) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: The scale is actually a smaller measurement of a larger thing. The actual distance is being divided by the distance present on the paper in a map.

Complete answer:
It is very obvious that we cannot represent the actual distance on a small piece of paper. For that we need to use some sort of scales. We deal with the ratio to represent the proper distance. However the distance may change but the ratio remains the same as that of the actual distance.
Scale of the map can be expressed as the map distance between the two points divided by ground distance between the same points.

Hence, the correct option is A.

Additional information:
The representation of the scale is done in various ways. For example a scale can be one centimetre to the one hundred meter, one inch to one mile and one centimetre to one thousand kilometres. The scale is also classified as the large scale, medium scale and the small scale. Small scales are used when we need to represent a very large area on a map such as the world maps or the large continents and nations. We need to keep the value of scale low for these cases so that a larger area can be represented in a small area. Large scale maps are more of a detailed map. The value of scale is high so that the small areas can be represented in a detailed manner. They may be used to represent towns. Maps of a country usually have a medium scale.

Note: The maps are however not the accurate representation because it represents the curved surface of the earth as flat. The scale is approximate because there is slight error due to curvature.