A town is designing a rectangular park that will be 600 feet wide by 1000 feet long. On a scale drawing, the dimensions of the park are 12 inches wide by 20 inches long. A rectangular area of the park for swing sets is 0.5 inch wide by 2 inches long on the scale drawing.

What is the actual length of the swing set area of the park?

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Question

A town is designing a rectangular park that will be 600 feet wide by 1000 feet long. On a scale drawing, the dimensions of the park are 12 inches wide by 20 inches long. A rectangular area of the park for swing sets is 0.5 inch wide by 2 inches long on the scale drawing.

What is the actual length of the swing set area of the park?

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Vocaloid · Answer

the real park is 600 feet wide, while the scale drawing is 12 inches wide.

so 600 feet in real-life = 12 inches on the map

dividing both sides by 12

50 feet in real life = 1 inch on the map

that's our scale.

so if the swing's scale drawing is 0.5 inches by 2 inches, multiply both these dimensions by 50 feet each to get the real-life size of the swing.

MAGA · Answer

@vocaloid wrote:

the real park is 600 feet wide, while the scale drawing is 12 inches wide. so 600 feet in real-life = 12 inches on the map dividing both sides by 12 50 feet in real life = 1 inch on the map that's our scale. so if the swing's scale drawing is 0.5 inches by 2 inches, multiply both these dimensions by 50 feet each to get the real-life size of the swing.

thx