Question

The park closest to Zahra's office is the shape of a square. Zahra is looking at a map of the park that has a scale of 3 in. to 200 ft. On the map, each side of the park is 6 inches long. Zahra's distance to the park is 500 feet. How long would this distance be on the map?

Answer 1

Given that the map of the park has a scale of;

3 in to 200 ft

Put this scale as a ration with similar units as;

0.08333 ft = 1 in

200 ft = ? inches

{200 * 1 } / 0.0833

2401 in

3 in : 2401 in ----- divide both sides

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