Question

Louise stops by a gift store tobuy a souvenir of the Statue ofLiberty. The original height ofthe statue is 151 feet. If a scalefactor of 1 inch = 20 feet isused to design the souvenir,what is the height of thereplica?

Answer 1

We know that 1 inch represents 20 ft; to determine how tall is the souvenir let x be the unknown height of it; we know that the actual statue is 151 ft then we have the proportion:

`(1)/(20)=(x)/(151)`

Solving for x we have:

`\begin{gathered} (1)/(20)=(x)/(151) \\ x=(151)/(20) \\ x=7.55 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the height of the souvenir is 7.55 inches