Question

A sculpture of Babe Ruth's 35-inch bat is 120 feet long. Round ur answer to the Nearest tenth of an inch.


The diameter of the handle of the sculpture is 3.5 feet. Estimate the diameter of the handle of Babe Ruth's bat.

Answer 1

Alright, so we first mist find the ratio of inches to feet. Easy peasy. Take the 120ft and divide by the 35 in which gives us 3.4in (rounded to the nearest 10th) per foot. Then we figure out the bats diameter which is 1ft = 3.4in which means that we multiply the 1ft by 3.5 and then we also must multiply the 3.4in by 3.5 as well resulting in 11.9in.