Map scale reduction
Cyril marked a square plot of land on a map with a scale of 1 ∶ 50,000 and calculated that its side corresponds to 1 km. He reduced the map on the copier so that the marked square had an area smaller by 1.44 cm2 than on the original map. What was the scale of the map after scaling?
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