Question

Manuela is drawing a map of her local park. The actual park is 500 feet long and 400 feet wide. Manuela needs her drawing to fit on her paper, so she decides to make the long side 10 inches.
What scale is Manuela using?
1 inch : _______ feet
What is the area of her drawing in square inches?
________ square inches

Answer 1

@haleyelizabeth2017

Answer 2

50

Answer 3

is the first one.....50 ft to be precise

Answer 4

wait...no it's not....let me see

Answer 5

it might be.......then to find the area, we need to divide 400 by 50 then multiply that by 10

Answer 6

So eighty

Answer 7

Yep, it was correct. Thanks. :)
Could you help me with a few more?

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Luke is drawing a map of his block. The actual block is 1800 feet long and 1260 feet wide. Luke needs his drawing to fit on his paper, so he decides to make the long side 10 inches.
What scale is Luke using?
1 inch : ________ feet
What is the area of Luke's drawing in square inches?

_______ square inches

Answer 10

so 1800/10

so the first one is 180 feet

then 70 square inches

Answer 11

I think

Answer 12

I would most definitely give you more medals if I could.
Alright, two more.

Answer 13

Peter creates an architectural blueprint of a rectangular dining room. The area of the actual dining room is 900 times as large as the area of the dining room on the blueprint. The length of the dining room on the blueprint is 4 inches.
What is the length of the actual dining room in feet?

Answer 14

okay haha its fine

Answer 15

4*900

Answer 16

3,600?

Answer 17

I think so.....?

Answer 18

nope. 10 ft.

Answer 19

have you heard of khan academy

Answer 20

it is so annoying. you have to get 5 questions correct in a row.

Answer 21

and now i need to do five more than normal.

Answer 22

yes I have :)

Answer 23

dont worry, its not your fault. nobody can understand KA glitches. like resetting progress.

Answer 24

five more i guess...

Answer 25

haha :D okay

Answer 26

Christopher is building a 1:150 scale model of a railroad building. His model has a rectangular base that is 1.5 feet wide and 2 feet long.
What is the area of the base of the actual railroad building in square feet?

Answer 27

One of these days I'm gonna crack KA riiiiggghhhhttt open. The source code is interesting, too.

Answer 28

lol okay

Answer 29

So can you help me with that problem?

Answer 30

I'm not sure..... :(

Answer 31

I can try in just a second....trying to help you and another person at the same time lol

Answer 32

K.

Answer 33

150*1.5=w
150*2=l
l*w=a

Answer 34

get it?

Answer 35

...no.

Answer 36

eh?

Answer 37

I don't get it.

Answer 38

so do 150*1.5 first then 150*2, then multiply those two numbers you get together

Answer 39

45000

Answer 40

I'm not sure......