Tanya bought a stuffed animal for her little sister at the mall. The stuffed animal was 15 inches tall. They saw the same animal at the zoo, and it was 30 feet tall.

What scale factor describes the relationship between the stuffed animal and the zoo animal?

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Tanya bought a stuffed animal for her little sister at the mall. The stuffed animal was 15 inches tall. They saw the same animal at the zoo, and it was 30 feet tall. 

What scale factor describes the relationship between the stuffed animal and the zoo animal?

anonymous · Answer

30 feet needs to go to inches to give us a proper scale.
12*30 = 360 inches
15:360
The animal at the zoo is 24 times the size as the stuffed animal. HTH

anonymous · Answer

1 inch = 3 feet





1 inch = 4 feet





1 inch = 2 feet





1 inch = 1 feet

anonymous · Answer

I inch = 2 feet
*15      *15
15 inches = 30 feet

anonymous · Answer

There you go.