Preston is designing a room that will be 10.5 feet long and 8.75 feet wide. He wants to create a scale drawing of the room using a scale of 0.5 inch = 2.5 feet. What should be the dimensions of the room on Preston’s scale drawing?
a.
2.1 inches by 1.75 inches
c.
0.5 inches by inches
b.
8.5 inches by 6.75 inches
d.
5.25 inches by 4.375 inches

Question

Preston is designing a room that will be 10.5 feet long and 8.75 feet wide. He wants to create a scale drawing of the room using a scale of 0.5 inch = 2.5 feet. What should be the dimensions of the room on Preston’s scale drawing? 
a.
2.1 inches by 1.75 inches
c.
0.5 inches by   inches
b.
8.5 inches by 6.75 inches
d.
5.25 inches by 4.375 inches

cwrw238 · Answer

for the length 10.5 , divide this by 2.5 
and multiply your result by 0.5

do the same with the width 8.75