Question

Shane made a scale drawing of a hotel. A room in the hotel, which is 18 feet wide in real life, is 51 inches wide in the drawing. What is the scale of the drawing?17 inches :____Feet

Answer 1

We know that 18 feet in real life are 51 inches in the drawing. And we must find hoy many feet are 17 inches

We can write the next equation for the situation

`\frac{18\text{feet}}{51\text{inches}}=\frac{\text{x }}{17\text{ inches}}`

Then, we must solve it for x

`x=\frac{18\text{ feet }\cdot17\text{ inches}}{51\text{ inches}}=6\text{ feet}`

Finally, the answer is

17 inches : 6 Feet