Question

Milan is building a sailboat. the model is built with a scale of 5 cm =4 ft. If Milan is intrested in finding the height of the actual sail on a full boat like his model and the models sail is 22 cm high ,what is the height of the actual sail ?

a.88ft
b.110 ft
c.27.5 ft
d.17.6 ft ?
Im thinking B ?

Answer 1

22*3

Answer 2

why you multiply by 3?

Answer 3

dont kno help me

Answer 4

what do ut hink

Answer 5

5 cm is 4 ft
how many ft is 1 cm?

Answer 6

You don't need to know that.

Answer 7

a.

Answer 8

yes you need to know you always get answer by performing this step but you may ignore it if you are good

Answer 9

???

Answer 10

You take the ratio of the sail height on the model to the scale of 5 cm. Then you multiply this value times the scale value of 4ft

Answer 11

which gives you 88 right ?

Answer 12

22/5=x/4

Answer 13

rickjbr that's what i asked for at the beginning, it's called ratio

Answer 14

Ah I see what you were talking about. I thought you were asking to do a metric conversion.

Answer 15

Sorry about that

Answer 16

which one is my answer

Answer 17

solve for x

Answer 18

d .17.6

Answer 19

d

Answer 20

every 5centimeter of his model stands for 4 feet so write a proportion
5cm/4 ft = 22cm/x ft