Question

One of the new commercial airline models is 2.5 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. The width of the actual plane is 40 meters. What is it’s the actual length? Round your answer to the nearest tenth and include the units.





The ratio of the width of the model to the width of the airplane provides the scale on which each new scale model to plane is built. The scale of each new model to plane is 1: _. (Enter only the number. Round to the nearest tenth)

Answer 1

Your equation will be:
Solve for x.
\[\frac{ 2.5 }{ 1.2 }=\frac{ x }{ 40 }\]

Answer 2

83.3333333?

Answer 3

round it to 83.3

Answer 4

how to do the second part though

Answer 5

Units of measurement? 83.3 what?

Answer 6

83.3 meters i believe

Answer 7

Yes. Must supply units of measurement like that.

2nd problem:

What is the width of the model? What is the length?
Please write the ratio of model width to the actual plane width.

Answer 8

83.3:40

Answer 9

You're telling me that the width of the model is 83.3? Double check that, please.

Answer 10

sorry i got that backwards 40: 83.3

Answer 11

Again, your response does not agree with the problem statement. Please reread that statement and then try again to answer my question: What is the width of the model? what is the width of the actual airplane?

"One of the new commercial airline models is 2.5 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. The width of the actual plane is 40 meters. What is it’s the actual length? Round your answer to the nearest tenth and include the units."