Scale Drawing Setup

Scale is 1cm = 8km. Hatboro and Smithville are 24cm apart on the map, what is the actual distance between the 2 cities?

• 87 km

• 216 km 

• 33 km

• 192 km

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

• True

• False

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

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

Roxanne drew a parallelogram with a height of 9 centimeters and a length of 10 1/2 centimeters. Jenna made a scale drawing of Roxanne's parallelogram using a scale factor of 4 2/3.

Determine the height and length, in centimeters, of the parallelogram that Jenna drew. Choose the appropriate circle in each row of the table.

An engineer created a scale drawing of a building using a scale in which 0.25 inch represents 2 feet. The length of the actual building is 250 ft. What is the length in inches of the building in the scale drawing?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

Jane made a scale drawing of a house where

1 in = 10 ft

 

 

If she wants to change the scale to 1 in = 20 ft what would her new scale drawing look like?

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Desmond measured a city park and made a scale drawing. The scale he used was 1 centimeter : 9 meters. The actual width of the soccer field is 54 meters. How wide is the field in the drawing?

Enter your answer WITHOUT units.

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

A building is 360 feet tall. On a scale drawing, 1/4 inch = 10 feet. What is the height of the building in the scale drawing?

Type your answer WITHOUT units.

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

A flagpole is drawn using a scale of 1 in.= 4 ft. If the flagpole measures 12 inches on the drawing, how tall is the actual flagpole?

Type your answer WITHOUT units.

Mathematical Equivalence

ON