Question

A game room has a floor that is 450 feet by 70 feet. A scale drawing of the floor on grid paper uses a scale of 1 unit:5 feet. What are the dimensions of the scale drawing?

Answer 1

Since the scale is 1 unit : 5 ft, we can write the following proportion:

`1unit\colon5ft=(1)/(5)`

then, we have the following equation for the first side of the floor