Question

Youve been asked to build a scale model of a restaurant out of bottle caps the restaurant is 20 ft tallyour scale is 2.4 cm: 1 foot a bottle cap is 1.2 cm tall about how many bottle caps tall will your model be?

Answer 1

40 bottle tops.

Explanation:

The model will be 20 * 2.4 = 48 cm tall.

So the height in bottle tops would be 48 / 1.2 = 40 (answer).

Answer 2

1 bottle cap is 1.2 cm, so two caps would be 2.4 cm ( 1.2 x 2)

The scale is 2.4 cm: 1 foot, so 2 bottle caps would equal 1 foot.

The building is 20 feet tall

20 feet x 2 caps per foot = 40 caps total.