Question

Pepper Jackie draws a map of the youth center building. The length of the building in her map is 6 inches. The actual length of the building is 72 feet. What is the scale of Jackie’s Map?

Answer 1

1 in. : 12 ft

Explanation:

Answer 2

Scale of Jackie's map is 1 in : 12 ft. Option B is correct.

Explanation:

Pepper Jackie draws a map of the youth center building.

The actual length of the building = 72 feet.

The length shown in the map = 6 inches.

To calculate the scale of Jackie's Map, we divide the actual length to the length shown in the map.

72 feet = 6 inches

Therefore 1 inches = 72 ÷ 6 = 12 feet

Scale of Jackie's map is 1 in : 12 ft.