Map Scales and Scale Diagrams

Sample Map Scales and Scale Diagrams questions

A few of the 50 questions, from easier to harder. Choose your exam board and tier to practise them, with every answer marked.

1. Question 12 marksGrade 2-3
   Scale: 1 cm represents 10 km. On a map, the distance between two towns is 13 cm. Work out the real distance between the towns, in km.
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   Each 1 cm on the map represents 10 km in real life. M1

   Multiply the map distance by 10: $13 \times 10 = 130$ km. A1
2. Question 22 marksGrade 2-3
   A model railway is built to a scale of 1 : 4. A real length is 12 cm. Work out the length on the model, in cm, that represents this.

What are the common mistakes in Map Scales and Scale Diagrams?

When a pupil makes one of these on Revision Workshop, the marking engine names the mistake and explains it, instead of just marking the answer wrong.

• Uses addition where the correct operation was multiplication

  Added the scale factor to the diagram length instead of multiplying by it

• Multiplies by the scale factor instead of dividing when scaling a quantity down

  Multiplied by 2 instead of dividing when scaling down from real size to the model

• Inverts the scale conversion, multiplying where it should divide or vice versa

  Divided by the scale factor instead of multiplying when converting a map distance to a real distance.

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How many Map Scales and Scale Diagrams practice questions are there?

There are 50 self-marking GCSE and IGCSE Maths questions on Map Scales and Scale Diagrams, written for AQA, Pearson, OCR, Pearson International GCSE Maths A (4MA1), Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580), Cambridge IGCSE (9-1) Mathematics (0980) across Foundation and Higher and Core and Extended tier. Each one is marked instantly and has a full worked solution.

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