It needs to be scaled down to fit on a page or a screen. Map scales can be written in two ways, a simple scale with units or a ratio scale. A map scale is given as 1 cm = 2 km. This means that ...

divide both parts of the scale by 5 The scale will now give the real distance represented by 1 unit on the map. The scale states that 5 cm represents 2 km. Both parts of the scale (5 cm and 2 km ...