A map
A map with a scale of 1: 5,000 shows a rectangular field with an area of 18 ha. The length of the field is three times its width. The area of the field on the map is 72 cm square. What is the actual length and width of the field?
Correct answer:

Tips to related online calculators
Looking for help with calculating roots of a quadratic equation?
Do you have a linear equation or system of equations and looking for its solution? Or do you have a quadratic equation?
Do you want to convert area units?
Do you want to convert length units?
Do you have a linear equation or system of equations and looking for its solution? Or do you have a quadratic equation?
Do you want to convert area units?
Do you want to convert length units?
You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
We encourage you to watch this tutorial video on this math problem: video1
Related math problems and questions:
- Hectares
Determine the area of the rectangular land (in ha), which has dimensions of 3 cm and 4.5 cm on the plan with a scale of 1: 40,000.
- Map scale
Garden has on plan on a scale of 1: 150 width 22 cm and length 35 cm. What is the real area of the garden?
- Hřiště
Map scale is 1: 5000. The playground is rectangular and on the map has dimensions 10 cm and 5 cm What is area of playground in square meters in reality?
- Map scale
On a 1:1000 scale map is a rectangular land of 4.2 cm and 5.8 cm. What is the area of this land in square meters?
- Map scale
The rectangular plot has a scale of 1: 10000 area 3 cm2 on the map. What content does this plot have on a 1:5000 scale map?
- Square garden
On the plan with a scale of 1:1500 is drawn as a square garden with area 81 cm2. How many meters is long garden fence? Determine the actual acreage gardens.
- Rectangle
Calculate area of the rectangle if its length is 12 cm longer than its width and length is equal to the square of its width.
- Rectangle
The length of the rectangle is 12 cm greater than 3 times its width. What dimensions and area this rectangle has if ts circumference is 104 cm.
- Hall
Rectangular hall will have pave by square tiles with a side length 15 cm. The hall has length 18 meters and width 3 m. How many tiles need to buy if 2 percent of the amount is disrupted during the work?
- Rectangular field
A rectangular field has a diagonal of length 169m. If the length and width are in the ratio 12:5. Find the dimensions of the field, the perimeter of the field and the area of the field.
- What scale
What scale is the map drawn if it shows a 15km route from the station to the ruins with a line 30cm long? A) 1: 2000 B) 1: 5000 C) 1: 20,000 D) 1: 50,000
- Rectangle - area, perimeter
The area of a rectangular field is equal to 300 square meters. Its perimeter is equal to 70 meters. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
- Rectangle field
The field has a shape of a rectangle having a length of 119 m and a width of 19 m. , How many meters have to shorten its length and increase its width to maintain its area and circumference increased by 24 m?
- Present
Gift box has a rectangular shape with dimensions of 8×8×3 cm. Miloslav wants to cover with square paper with sides of 18 cm. How much paper left him?
- Square vs rectangle
Square and rectangle have the same area contents. The length of the rectangle is 9 greater and width 6 less than side of the square. Calculate the side of a square.
- An architect
An architect makes a model of a new house. The model shows a tile patio in the backyard. In the model each tile has length of 1/2 inch and width of 1/6 inch. The actual tiles have length of 2/3 feet and width 2/9 feet. What is the ratio of the length of a
- Area of garden
If the width of the rectangular garden is decreased by 2 meters and its length is increased by 5 meters, the area of the rectangle will be 0.2 ares larger. If the width and the length of the garden will increase by 3 meters, its original size will increas