Conversions
Real Life Examples
Ratios
Scale
Maps
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1cm to _____ mm

10

100

What is a real life example of 1cm?

Width of pinky finger

100

How do you say "1:4"?

One to Four

100

What are the two types of scale?

Scale Reduction and Scale Enlargement

100
If the scale of a map is 1:800000, how many km does 1cm represent?

8km

200

30cm to _____ m

0.3

200

What unit is the best for measuring the width of a notebook?

Centimeters (cm)

200

Put 4:12 into lowest terms

1:3

200

If a stop sign is 60cm and the diagram is 3cm, is this scale reduction or scale enlargement?

Scale Reduction

200

If 1cm on a map represents 6km, how many km is 3.5cm representing?

21km

300

53mm to ____ m

0.053

300
What is the best unit of measurement for the thickness of a dime?

mm

300

Find an equivalent ratio to 1:5

2:10, 3:15, 4:20

300

If a dime is 18mm in real life and 54mm in the diagram, what is the scale?

3:1 scale enlargement

300

Approximately how long would it take to travel 460km taking the highway?

4.6 hours

400

4.35km to ____ m

4350

400

What is a real life example of 1m?

Length of legs/from floor to hip

400

Put 51:102 into lowest terms

1:2

400

If a paperclip is 2.5cm long in real life and 10.25cm long on the diagram, what is the scale? (To one decimal place)

4.1:1 scale enlargement
400

Approximately how long would it take to travel 534km not taking the highway? (Round to one decimal place)

10.7 hours

500

51300cm to _____ km 

0.513

500

What is the best unit of measurement to measure the distance between cities?

km

500

If there are 8 girls and 4 boys in the class, what is the girl to boy ratio?

2:1

500

If the Earth is 12756km in diameter, and it is represented as 1m in a diagram, what is the scale?

1:12756000

500

If Whitby is 1.5cm away from Oshawa on a map, and the scale is 1cm to 9km, what is the distance between them?

13.5km

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