Scale Drawings Finding Actual Distance

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

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?

• 6 cm

• 486 cm

• 9 cm

• 54 cm

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

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

Find side length X.

• 16

• 18

• 2.4

• 15

Elijah measured the distance between Panther Junction and Big Bend National Park on the map below as 3 1/4 inches. Based on the scale provided, what is the actual distance in miles between Panther Junction and Big Bend National Park? Express your answer as a decimal. (Hint: Look at the scale on the map.)

• 71 miles

• 3.08 miles

• 32.5 miles

• 77.5 miles

For BCMS’s Annual Winter Concert, a temporary stage will be built in the gym this year. A scale drawing for the stage uses a scale of 1.25 in. = 3 ft. If the drawing has a length of 5 inches, what is the actual length of the stage? (Hint: Set up your proportions.)

• 15 ft

• 3.75 ft

• 12 ft

• 2.4 ft

For BCMS’s Annual Winter Concert, a temporary stage will be built in the gym this year. A scale drawing for the stage uses a scale of 1.25 in. = 3 ft. If the drawing has a width of 2.5 inches, what is the actual width of the stage? (Hint: Set up your proportions.)

• 6 ft

• 4 ft

• 3.75 ft

• 7 ft

The distance from Point A to Point B on a scale drawing is 6 cm. If the scale is 1cm : 10m. What is the actual distance from A to B?

• 6 m

• 10 m

• 18 m

• 60 m