Scale Drawings Word Problems Practice

Jamie made a scale drawing of his apartment building.  The building is 300 ft tall.  He wants his scale to be 1 inch : 10 ft.  How tall should his building be in his scale drawing?

• 25 inches

• 60 inches

• 1/30 inch

• 30 inches

A map has a scale of 1 cm=5km.  On the map, two cities are 3 cm apart. What is the actual distance between these cities? 

• 7 km

• 5 km

• 15 km

• 17 km 

On a map, Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, are 5 inches apart. The distance between the cities is actually 210 miles.

What scale was used to create the map?

• 42 inches = 1 mile

• 1 inch = 42 miles

• 40 inches = 1 mile

• 
  1 inch = 40 miles

What is the scale factor?

• 4

• 25

• 5

• 6

Irene measured a shopping center and made a scale drawing. The scale she used was 2 inches : 1 foot. If a bakery in the shopping center is 104 inches in the drawing, how long is the actual bakery?

• 52 ft

• 208 ft

On a map, the distance between Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, is 1 3/4 inches. The scale of the map is 1 in:100 mi. What is the actual distance between the two cities?

• 200 miles

• 175 miles

• 100 miles

• 125 miles

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

This scale drawing shows a parking lot. What is the length of the longer side of the actual lot? 

• 63 m

• 235 m

• 315 m

• 630 m

The original perimeter of a rectangle is 30cm, if we enlarge it by a scale factor of 4 what is the new perimeter?

• 120

• 480

• 1920

If the perimeter of a rectangle was 20in and now it is is 80in, what is the scale factor that was used?

• 4

• 2

• 40

• 20