Question

a blueprint of a house has a scale in which one inch represents four and a half feet if a living room wall measures seven and one eighth inches on the drawing what is the actual length of the wall

Answer 1

Scales on a wall, change of units conversion

1 inch = 4 1/2 feets

7 1/8 inches = ?

First convert to fractions

(4 + 1/2) • ( 7 + 1/8) =

apply distributive law ( a+b)•(c+d)= ac + ad + bc + bd

then length of wall= 4•7 + 4/8 + 7/2 + 1/16

= 28 + 8/16 + 56/16 + 1/16

= 28 + 64/16 + 1/16

= 28 + 4 + 1/16

= 32 + 1/16

lenght is 32 and 1/16 feet