Anna is a sales person who has jobs this week in cities within North Carolina and South Carolina. On a map, these two cities are 50 centimeters apart. The map uses a scale of 2 centimeters = 4 kilometers. What is the actual distance between these cities?

2 centimeters ... 4 kilometers

50 centimeters ... x kilometers = ?

If you would like to know what is the actual distance between these cities, you can calculate this using the following steps:

2 * x = 4 * 50

2 * x = 200 / 2

x = 200/2

x = 100 kilometers

The correct result would be 100 kilometers.