Question

Georgia built a model of the Empire State Building that is proportional to the actual building. The actual building is 187 feet wide and 1,454 feet tall. Her model is 10 feet tall.Approximately how wide is Georgia's model?

Answer 1

Ok so what you have to do is add 187 + 1454

Answer 2

Did you get your answer, tell me if you did so we can countinue

Answer 3

why would i be adding thos numbers if i have to find the differince between the scale and the real bilding

Answer 4

and its 1641

Answer 5

since it is proportional then we'll use ratio and proportion..

Answer 6

so w*h

Answer 7

that's what happened when we do the cross multiplication.
it's like you multiply the width of the original bldg and the height of the model
and you multiply the width of the model to the height of the original bldg

Answer 8

since you are to find the width of the model, then you'll come up with the equation above.. what did you get?

Answer 9

1807/1454

Answer 10

just have it in decimal rounding it to two decimal places

Answer 11

1.87

Answer 12

or you can have it in three decimal places

Answer 13

recheck your calculation..

Answer 14

i forgot how to turn a fraction to a decmal

Answer 15

just divide the numerator (upper #) over denominator (lower #)
the answer is 1.286 recheck where you got the error

Answer 16

i think you miscalculated 187*10.. check your answer above

Answer 17

thats not on my answer list i might have to round

Answer 18

what's on the choices?

Answer 19

and i did i moved the decmal 2 places to the left to try to get a decmal from 1807

Answer 20

187*10 = 1870 not 1807

Answer 21

a. 0.77
b. 2.72
c. 1.87
d. 1.29

Answer 22

thats what i did wrong

Answer 23

its c

Answer 24

then we have to round it up to the nearest tenths place. 1.286 would be?

Answer 25

c

Answer 26

no d

Answer 27

yep it's d

Answer 28

thankyou

Answer 29

yw :)