The distance on ground that is represented by 8 cm on the map with the given scale is: 4 km.
What is the Scale of a Map?
The scale of a map relates the actual distance between two places in real life and the distance on paper.
Given the map scale as, 1:50,000, the number of km on ground that 8 cm on the map would be is calculated as shown below:
8 × 50,000 = 400,000 cm
Convert 400,000 cm to km. [1 km = 100,000]
400,000/100,000 = 4 km.
The distance on the ground would be: 4 km.
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