Lesson 12: Units in Scale Drawings | Unit 1: Scale Drawings

Multiple Choice

The Empire State Building in New York City is about 1,450 feet high (including the antenna at the top) and 400 feet wide. Andre wants to make a scale drawing of the front view of the Empire State Building on an $$8 \frac{1}{2}$$ \-inch-by- $$11$$ \-inch piece of paper. Select a scale that you think is the most appropriate for the scale drawing.

• 1 inch to 100 feet

• 1 centimeter to 50 meters

• 1 centimeter to 1 meter

• 1 inch to 1 foot

• 1 inch to 1 mile

Multiple Choice

Elena finds that the area of a house on a scale drawing is 25 square inches. The actual area of the house is 2,025 square feet. What is the scale of the drawing?

• 1:108
• 1:50
• 1:75
• 1:120

Multiple Select

Which of these scales are equivalent to 3 cm to 4 km? Select **all** that apply. Recall that 1 inch is 2.54 centimeters.

• 0.75 cm to 1 km

• 1 cm to 12 km

• 6 mm to 2 km

• 0.3 mm to 40 m

• 1 in to 7.62 km

Open Ended

These two triangles are scaled copies of one another. The area of the smaller triangle is 9 square units. What is the area of the larger triangle? Explain or show how you know.

Multiple Choice

Water costs $1.25 per bottle. At this rate, what is the cost of 10 bottles?

• $10.00

• $12.50

• $15.00

• $20.00

Multiple Choice

Water costs $1.25 per bottle. At this rate, what is the cost of 20 bottles?

• $20.00

• $25.00

• $30.00

• $35.00

Multiple Choice

Water costs $1.25 per bottle. At this rate, what is the cost of 50 bottles?

• $62.50

• $50.00

• $75.00

• $100.00

Draw

Complete the table for 2, 3, and 4 batches.

Multiple Choice

For the object 'A person', choose an appropriate scale for a drawing that fits on a regular sheet of paper.

• 1 in : 1 ft

• 1 cm : 1 m

• 1 : 1,000

• 1 ft : 1 mile

• 1 : 100,000

Multiple Choice

For the object 'A football field (120 yd by 53 1/3 yd)', choose an appropriate scale for a drawing that fits on a regular sheet of paper.

• 1 : 1,000

• 1 ft : 1 mile

• 1 in : 1 ft

• 1 : 100,000

• 1 cm : 1 m