Ratios Proportions and Scale Drawings

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

• 16 feet

• 3 feet

• 48 feet

• 9 feet

Solve for x

• 2

• 90

Using 2 in = 35 miles, solve:  The distance between Troy City and Ben City is 315 miles. How far apart are they on the map?

• 18 miles

• 18 inches

• 5512.5 inches

• 5512.5 miles

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

Review the picture.  Find the missing side measurement in the picture using a proportion.

• w = 18 m

• w = 6 m

• 6 m

• w = 0.16 m

A scale drawing of a house shows 9cm ×10cm. If 6cm=12 ft, what are the actual dimensions?

• 9ft x 10ft

• 1ft x 2ft

• 12ft x 6ft

• 18ft x 20ft

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

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