Jack drew a scale drawing of a game room. The scale of the drawing was 1 inch : 2 feet. The pool table is 4 feet wide in real life. How wide is the pool table in the drawing?

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Thomas BDX · Answer 1 · 2024-11-16T06:41:16+0000

Explanation:

First you need to convert feet to inches.

We know that 1 foot has 12 inches in it so there will be 24 inches in 2 feet. So our scale is 1 inch to 24 inches.

Now that we know that 2 feet has 24 inches in it we can multiply that by 2 which equals 48 inches

Its is 48 inches wide.