Question

You originally draw a design for an art contest on a 4 in. x 5 in. card. The second phase of the contest requires the drawing to be transferred to an 8.5 in x 11 in. standard sheet of paper and utilize as much of the space on the paper as possible. You determine that the largest size one of the dimensions of your drawing can be is 10.5 in. What is the length of the other dimension if the two drawings are similar?

Answer 1

From what I can tell, that largest dimension must have been the largest dimension of the original drawing which is 5 in. Thus, your drawing must be increased in the scale of 11/5(final over original dimension.) Using this scale, can you find out the other dimension?

Answer 2

@wolfe8 this is a pretest so I haven't really studied for this >.< 11/5 is like 2.5 :3 I know that XD

Answer 3

Hold on

Answer 4

@wolfe8 okey dokey ^-^ thanks for helping btw :D

Answer 5

Sorry a friend was talking to me. Alright so you know that you scaled the original by a factor of 2.5 now. If 4 in. is the original and you scale it up by a factor on 2.5, what do you do?

Answer 6

@wolfe Its okay :D do u multiply? :3

Answer 7

Yup :)

Answer 8

@wolfe8 looks like I made a mistake XD 11/5 is 2.2, so do I still multiply it by 4? ^-^

Answer 9

Yup

Answer 10

@wolfe8 got 8.8 :D

Answer 11

is that the answer? ^-^

Answer 12

If we use my method that's our answer. Are you given the actual answer?

Answer 13

@wolfe8 I wish XD I will try 8.8 ^-^ wish me luck XD

Answer 14

Good luck haha

Answer 15

WAIT

Answer 16

WAITTTTT

Answer 17

okay XD

Answer 18

We--I used the wrong value. The final is 10.5 not 11. So the scale is 10.5/5 Then do the same thing.

Answer 19

@wolfe8 so 10.5/5 = 2.1. 2.1 * 4 = 8.4 :D is that the answer? :)

Answer 20

Yup.

Answer 21

THANKS WOLFE :D Your a hero ^O^

Answer 22

I noticed I made a mistake somewhere because it wouldn't make sense to fit 8.8 on 8.5 paper :) Common sense like this helps a lot of the times and you're welcome :) As long as you learn something new it's always a pleasure to help.

Answer 23

@wolfe8 mistakes happen :D It's not your fault XD thanks so much for the help ^O^ u did great :D