Question

Mora painted a picture of the front of her house to scale. In her painting, the house is forty inches wide. Her house is sixty feet wide and twenty feet high. What is the scale between the painting and her house?

one inch to 3 feet

3 inches to two feet

2 inches to 3 feet

two feet to one inch

Answer 1

@Yttrium

Answer 2

@briajosephs

Answer 3

Hm...... D is out for sure.

Answer 4

I wanna say B

Answer 5

You can apply here actually ratio and proportion.
In your case, it could be painting(w):real(w)
where w means width.
Therefore, what will happen?

Answer 6

@Yttrium ???

Answer 7

What is the width in painting?
What is the actual width?