Question

What is the answer to this problem:

Richard is given a stuffed giraffe for his birthday. He knows a giraffe’s neck is 72 inches long in real life. He measures his stuffed giraffe’s neck and finds it’s 3.6 inches long. What is the scale?

Answer 1

measure of 20 stuffed giraffe necks=1 real life giraffe neck measurement

Explanation:

the giraffe's neck is 72 inches long real life.

the stuffed giraffe necks is 3.6 inches long.

to find the scale

72/3.6

the measure of 20 stuffed giraffe necks= 1 real life giraffe neck