Question

Can you please help me with this question?

Eliza made a scale drawing of her parents’ convenience store. The scale she used was 1 mm: 6 m. The convenience store’s freezer section is 24 meters in real life. How long is the freezer section in the drawing? (be sure to label your answer)

Answer 1

To find out the length of the freezer section in the drawing, we need to use the scale factor of the drawing, which is 1 mm: 6 m.

First, we can set up a proportion to relate the real length of the freezer section to its length in the drawing:

1 mm / 6 m = x mm / 24 m

Here, x represents the length of the freezer section in the drawing that we're trying to find.

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply and simplify:

6 m * x mm = 1 mm * 24 m

x = (1 mm * 24 m) / 6 m

x = 4 mm

Therefore, the length of the freezer section in the drawing is 4 mm.