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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in brief.
Which three ways are used to represent the scale of a map?
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उत्तर
The proportion which exists between the map and actual surface of the Earth is called the scale. A scale can be expressed in three ways
- by a statement
- by representative fraction
- linear scale or graph
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