Scales and Scale Drawings

True or False: The scale tells us what some length on the scale drawing represents in actual length

• True

• False

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CCSS.7.G.A.1

Your scale is 1 inch to 5 miles. If the drawing shows a road that is 2 inches long, how many miles is the actual road?

• 5 miles

• 2.5 miles

• 10 miles

• 7 miles

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2C

Kiran drew a floor plan of his classroom using the scale 1 inch to 6 feet. Kiran's drawing is 4 inches wide and 5.5 inches long. What are the dimensions of the actual classroom?

• 4 inches wide and 5.5 inches long

• 0.66 inches wide and 0.91 inches long

• 1.5 feet wide and 0.72 feet long

• 24 feet wide and 33 feet long

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CCSS.7.G.A.1

Kiran drew a floor plan of his classroom using the scale 1 inch to 72 inches. Kiran wants to make a larger scale drawing of the same classroom. Which of these scales could he use?

• 1 to 50

• 1 to 72

• 1 to 100

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CCSS.7.G.A.1

Kiera measured a farm and made a scale drawing. In real life, the goat pen is 18 meters long. It is 6 centimeters long in the drawing. What scale did Kiera use for the drawing?

• 1 cm = 6 meters

• 1 m = 18 centimeters

• 18 centimeters = 6 meters

• 1 cm = 3 meters

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CCSS.7.G.A.1

A scale on a hiking map shows that 3 inches represents 1.25 miles. What number of inches on the map represent 10 actual miles?

• 24 inches

• 12.5 inches

• 30 inches

• 3 inches

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

• x = 4.8

• x = 5.4

• x = 9.6

• x = 7.2

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CCSS.7.G.A.1

A model of a house was built using the scale 5 in:25 ft. If a window in the model is 1.5 in. wide, how wide is the actual window?

• 90 ft
• 7.5 ft 
• 4.5 ft
• 45 in

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

On a map, the distance between Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, is 1.75 inches. The scale of the map is 1 in:100 mi. What is the actual distance between the two cities?

• 200 miles

• 175 miles

• 100 miles

• 125 miles

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

A blueprint was using a scale of 1cm = 1.5m. Find the actual length if it is 5cm on the drawing.

• 7.5

• 13.5

• 1.5

• 1.7

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CCSS.7.G.A.1