Question

Mickey drew a scale drawing of the room in his junior high building using the scale 1 centimeter (cm) = 1.5 meters (m). The office in his scale drawing measured 2.6 cm x 3.2 cm. What are the actual dimensions of the office?

a) 41m x 4.7m
b) 17m x 21m
c) 2.6 m * 3.2m
d) 39 m * 48m

Answer 1

To determine the real-life dimensions of Mickey's office, each measurement on the scale drawing (2.6 cm by 3.2 cm) is multiplied by the scale factor of 1.5 meters per centimeter, resulting in actual dimensions of 3.9 meters by 4.8 meters.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the actual dimensions of the office in Mickey's scale drawing of his junior high building, we will use the provided scale of 1 cm = 1.5 m. The office measurements on the drawing are 2.6 cm by 3.2 cm. To find the real-life measurements, we simply multiply each dimension by the scale factor.

• Actual length: 2.6 cm × 1.5 m/cm = 3.9 m
• Actual width: 3.2 cm × 1.5 m/cm = 4.8 m

Thus, the actual dimensions of the office are 3.9 meters by 4.8 meters.