Gino designed a garden for his rectangular backyard. The design he drew on paper is 7 inches wide. The width of his backyard is 42 feet. If his drawing is to scale and is 8 inches long, how many feet long is his backyard? Write a proportion using words. Then, use the proportion to calculate the yard length.

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shane_b · Answer

If the width of the paper is 7 inches wide and the width of his yard is 42 ft, then the scale is 1:6.  So every inch on his paper = 6 ft.

If the paper is 8 inches long then the length of his back yard must be therefore be?