Question

A museum has a wax sculpture of a historical village. The scale is 1.5:8. If the height of a hut in the sculpture is 5 feet, how tall is the original hut to the nearest whole foot?

Answer 1

Let us say that x is the real height of the original hut, therefore we can establish the equation:

5 : x = 1.5 : 8

5 / x = 1.5 / 8

Solving for x:

x = 5 * 8 / 1.5

x = 40 / 1.5

x = 26.67 ft