Scale Drawing and Scales

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

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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• Read the lesson summaries at the end of each lesson.

• Stay up late watching Netflix and forget you have a quiz tomorrow.

• Take your workbook home.

• Do the practice problems at the end of each lesson.

If the scale of a drawing is 1 cm = 4 m, and the length of a building on the drawing is 6 cm, what is the actual length of the building?

• 15 m

• 10 m

• 24 m

• 30 m

On a map, 1 inch represents 25 miles. If a river on the map is 2.5 inches long, how long is the actual river?

• The actual length of the river is 100 miles.

• The actual length of the river is 10 miles.

• The actual length of the river is 62.5 miles.

• The actual length of the river is 50 miles.

A scale drawing of a park has a scale of 1 cm = 5 m. If the length of the park on the drawing is 8 cm, what is the actual length of the park?

• 13 m

• 25 m

• 60 m

• 40 m

6. A blueprint has a scale of 1 inch = 6 feet. If a room on the blueprint is 4.5 inches long, what is the actual length of the room?

• 12 feet

• 27 feet

• 18 feet

• 9 feet

If the scale of a drawing is 1 cm = 3 m, and the width of a garden on the drawing is 5 cm, what is the actual width of the garden?

• 3 m

• 15 m

• 20 m

• 8 m

A map has a scale of 1 inch = 20 miles. If two towns are 2.8 inches apart on the map, what is the actual distance between them?

• 2.8 miles

• 100 miles

• 0.14 miles

• 56 miles

A map has a scale of 1 inch = 10 miles. If two cities are 3.5 inches apart on the map, what is the actual distance between them?

• 3.5 miles

• 0.35 miles

• 100 miles

• 35 miles