Question

An architect is desgining a building that is 200 feet long and 140 feet wide. She builds a model so that the similarity ratio of the model to the building is 1:500. What is the length of the model in inches?

Answer 1

1in to 500 ft
or
1 in to 500 in

Answer 2

let us assume that the scale factor is 1 in for every 500 in

so the width is 200 ft

there are 12 in in a ft

so convert the width to inches

do the same for the length