Question

Gino designed a garden for his rectangular backyard. The design he drew on paper is 10 inches long. The length of his backyard is50 feet. If his drawing is to scale and is 9 inches wide, how many feet wide is his backyard? Write a proportion using words. Then, use the proportion to calculate the yard width. Show your work.

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Answer 4

it says use a proportion tho ??

Answer 5

Yeah, to express it in words

Answer 6

how do i do that .

Answer 7

Ok, it would be Gino's design of his backyard has proportion that is 60:1 compared to his backyard. I don't know how your teacher would want it to be phrased, but this should be legit.

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CORRECTION: Gino's design of his backyard has proportion that is 1:60 compared to his backyard.

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Since we set the proportion as a comparison of the lengths that are on the design compared to the real ones in the back yard. So for instance
Real Length : 600 inches
Design Length : 10 inches
So it would be saying 10/ 600 or 1: 60

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then it says use the proportion to calculate yard width?

Answer 12

Ok convert the answer into yards

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how many feet are in a yard ?

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3 feet

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15 is the yard width ?

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Yes

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i got this out of all this . plz correct if im wrong ;

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45 feet is Ginos width of his backyard . Gino's design of his backyard has proportion that is 1:60 compared to his backyard. The yard width of ginos is 15 yards .

my work ;
(converting feet to inches)
50 feet/1 x 12 inches/feet = 600 inches
(using a proportion)
10/9 = 600/x -length/width-
then you do ; 10x=5400 which equals 540 inches (divided both sides by 10) . which is 45 feet.

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That's exactly correct

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Not really, I came here because I had some trouble with math, but I don't mind helping people

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