Scale Drawings and Scale Models

What is the scale of a drawing where a 6 m wall is 4 cm long?

• 1 cm = .66 m

• 1 cm = 1.5 m

• 1 cm = 3 m

• 1 cm = 4 m

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

A model of a planned baseball stadium is 2 ft wide. The actual stadium will be 200 yd wide. What is the scale?

• 2 feet = 50 yards

• 1 foot = 200 yards

• 1 foot = 100 yards

• 1 foot = 50 yards

On a map, the distance between two towns in 2.6 cm. The scale of the map is 1 cm:50 km. What is the actual distance between the two towns?

• 100 km

• 130 km

• 70 km

• 150 km

The scale model of a building is 6.5 inches tall. How tall is the actual building if the scale used for the model is 1 inch = 150 feet?

• 650 feet

• 840 feet

• 900 feet

• 975 feet

A model of a flagpole has a scale of 1 in.= 4 ft. If the model pole measures 12 inches, how tall is the actual pole?

• 16 feet

• 3 feet

• 48 feet

• 9 feet

Kim was visiting an amusement park. At the entrance, she saw a map of the park. The legend stated that 1.5 inches on the map represents 4 feet in the park. On the map, (a)   inches would represent 20 actual feet.

• 7.5

• 5

• 6

• 53

The two rectangles are scale drawings. What is the measurement of x?

• 21

• 1.25

• 20

• 4

A Lego model of the Burj Khalifa was created using a scale of 1 foot = 650 feet. If the lego model reaches a height of 4.18 feet, what is the height of the Burj Khalifa?

• 2,717 feet

• 2, 152 feet

• 2, 376 feet

A scale drawing of Mt. Marcy is 17.8 inches high. Determine the actual height of Mt. Marcy if the scale used for the drawing was 1.5 inches = 450 feet.

• 8,010 feet

• 5,340 feet

• 12,015 feet