Question

A Stegosaurus skeleton at a museum has a height of 4 meters. The gift shop at the museum sells a model of the Stegosaurus. The scale used to create the model was 1 cm = 0.16 m. What is the height, in centimeters, of the model of the Stegosaurus the gift shop sells?

Answer 1

The scale model of a Stegosaurus at 1 cm = 0.16 m results in a model height of 25 centimeters when the actual skeleton is 4 meters tall.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking how to calculate the height of a scale model of a Stegosaurus when the scale is given as 1 cm = 0.16 m and the actual height of the skeleton is 4 meters. To find the height of the model in centimeters, you can set up a proportion based on the scale. You know that 1 cm on the model corresponds to 0.16 m on the actual Stegosaurus, so you can convert the actual height of 4 meters into centimeters by dividing by 0.16 m.

The calculation would be 4 meters ÷ 0.16 meters/cm which equals 25 cm. Therefore, the height of the model of the Stegosaurus sold in the gift shop is 25 centimeters.