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all right kiddos here's the scenario you are on a road trip from Little Rock Arkansas to Charlotte North Carolina all of a sudden your phone dies you didn't bring your charger and you no longer have access to Google Maps what do you do that's right you may have to go old school and get out a paper map if you have one of course you never know when your map skills will come in handy not only will your map help you reach your destination you can determine the distance between your starting location and your destination using a very simple tool on your map so if you don't want to be stranded someday between Little Rock and Charlotte I suggest you listen closely so once you find your paper map you need to look for the map scale every good map has a map scale a map scale compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world for example you can't unfold a map that would be identical to the real world it would be ginormous so in order to get your map to fit in your pocket they use a map scale this particular map scale contains miles mi and kilometers km miles are located on the top and kilometers are located on the bottom according to this map if you are looking at the top numbers from the start of the red and white line to the end is equivalent to 400 miles in real life same goes for the bottom of our scale from the start of the red and white line to the end is the same as 400 kilometers one important thing to note here is that each map has its own personalized scale you couldn't use this scale on any other map so we need to use this map scale to find the distance between Little Rock Arkansas in Charlotte North Carolina in order to use the scale up on our map we have to copy the scale onto a scrap piece of paper I would advise copying both miles and kilometers from the start because you never know what your question or scenario will require alright now that you have your map scale copied down you need to determine a good route to take from your starting location to your destination once you have figured out your route place your copied map scale on your map the zero on the scale should be perfectly lined up with your starting location the rest of your scale should angle directly toward your destination as you can see our scale isn't long enough to reach from our starting location to our destination in order to properly measure the distance between the two we need to mark on our map where the scale ends in this case I simply place my pencil on the map where my scale indicated roughly 400 kilometers I then kept my pencil still why I moved the 0 of my map scale to the location of my pencil our map scale still doesn't reach Charlotte North Carolina but we did travel another 400 kilometers so 400 kilometers plus 400 kilometers equals 800 kilometers it appears that I need to move my scale once more before reaching Charlotte again I place my pencil on the map at the end of my scale I then move the scale so that the 0 is at my pencil by doing this our scale is able to reach Charlotte North Carolina according to our scale we have traveled about 200 kilometers so we had already traveled 800 kilometers we add 200 kilometers and get a total of about 1000 kilometers from Little Rock Arkansas to Charlotte North Carolina so let's recap in real time I line up my scale starting at Little Rock I'm mark 400 kilometers with my pencil I then moved this zero on my scale to my pencil I marked 400 kilometers again and moved the zero on my scale in line with my pencil finally my scale reaches Charlotte and I've gone in addition 200 kilometers as you are using the map scale I suggest you write down the distance you have traveled each time you move the scale so for this scenario I would have written down 400 kilometers plus another 400 kilometers and then an additional 200 kilometers as you can see this gives us a total of about 1000 kilometers let's try it now with another map another map scale and a different starting location and destination we are going to find the distance in miles between Dayton Ohio and Columbus Ohio just like before we need to copy down our map scale keep in mind since we are using a different map we must recopy our map scale because each map scale is created for a specific map once we have our map scale copied down we need to line it up on our map the 0 of our map scale needs to be on our starting location in this case Dayton Ohio the rest of the map scale needs to be angled towards our destination Columbus Ohio since we are traveling a shorter distance our map scale reaches our destination immediately now here's the kicker Columbus isn't exactly lined up with any number on our map scale when a scenario like this occurs we simply estimate I like to make estimation lines directly on my map scale as you can see I have added a 75 mile marker to my scale I saw that Columbus landed between 50 miles and 100 miles I know that halfway between 50 and 100 is 75 I estimated where the 75 mile marker would be on my map and drew a line now I have a better tool to use when estimating I know Columbus is not 50 miles from Dayton North seventy-five miles from Dayton therefore I will estimate that Dayton and Columbus are anywhere between 60 and 65 miles apart in this case I will say Columbus is about 60 miles from Dayton you never know when your paper map and map scale will come in handy now if you're on a road trip and something happens to your phone all as well [Music]