The actual distance between Sam's school and the library is 420m.
The town map is a scale drawing of the town.
A scale drawing is a smaller image of an original image / building / object.
Scale of the drawing = original dimensions / dimensions of the scale drawing
In order to determine the actual distance between Sam's school and the library, the first step is to determine the scale of the map.
Scale of the map = 250m / 5 cm = 50
The scale is 1cm represents 50m
The actual distance between Sam's school and the library = scale of the drawing x distance on the map
50 x 8.4 = 420m
To learn more about scale drawings, please check: brainly.com/question/980463?referrer=searchResults
