Scale Drawing Length and Area

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

Lin has a scale model of a modern train. The model is created at a scale of 1 to 48. The height of the model train is 102 millimeters. What is the actual height of the train?

• 4,896,000 millimeters

• 4,896 millimeters

• 48.96 meters

• 2.125 millimeters

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

• A

• B

• C

• D

• 30 cm²

• 22 cm

• 12000 m²

• 440 m

Using this scale, what is the area, in square feet, of the playground?

• 19,200 square feet

• 17,600 square feet

• 15,200 square feet

• 12,000 square feet

This diagram is a scale drawing of a store.

To the nearest 50 square feet, what is the area of the actual store?

Scale: 1 inch = 16 feet

• 2350 square feet

• 2400 square feet

• 2450 square feet

• 2500 square feet

The triangle shown is a scale drawing of an actual triangle sculpture. The scale used to make the drawing was 2 units in the drawing = 3 meters in the actual triangle. What is the area of the actual triangle.

Area=1/2bh

• 18 m²

• 72 m²

• 32 m²

• 36 m²

A scale drawing of a rectangular parking lot shows a length of 8 inches and a width of 3 inches. If the scale is 1 inch = 20 meters, what is the actual area of the parking lot?

• 480 square meters

• 240 square meters

• 160 square meters

• 60 square meters