Feet, miles, cubits, rods, furlongs, yards and fathoms would all be examples of customary units you could use. You could also use angstroms or parsecs, but those are inappropriate for distances such as here to the nearest mall.
You would divide 250 miles by 12.5 to find out how many miles is one inch. So the scale would be 1 in = 20 m
It would be yards.
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Since the US uses statute miles as a standard unit of distance, The distance between cities in Alabama would be expressed as miles.
They share a common border, so there is no distance between them. You would have to specify cities to get a distance.
You would use kilometers.
The customary unit would be miles (mi), and the metric unit would be kilometers (km).
An average distance (according to driving time distance) between these two cities would last 21 minutes. However, it is only about 18.4 miles between the two cities.
not sure of the distance but I believe it would be Barrow, AK to Key west, FL
To find the real distance between the cities, multiply the map distance by the scale. In this case, 6 cm multiplied by 20 km would give you a real distance of 120 km between the two cities.
Ex. the distance between two cities A kilometer is 1,000 meters
The actual distance between the two cities would be 3.5 inches * 100 km/inch = 350 km.
The actual distance between two cities cannot be determined accurately based on a map scale alone. Maps use a scale to represent real distances, so you would need to know the scale of the map to calculate the actual distance between the two cities.
The distance between the cities of Bangor, Maine and Houlton, Maine is about 98 miles. To travel from Bangor to Houlton, you would go in a north to east direction.
Usually no. Say you need to fly to New York from Chicago. The resultant displacement would be the straightline distance between the two cities. But you fly through Atlanta (Everything seems to go through Atlanta). You would end up flying about twice the total distance between the cities.