Question

Shannon wants to make a scale drawing of her car on a 5 inch by 7 inch index card. Her car is 12 feet long.

She decided to use a scale of 1 inch : 0.5 feet. Would her drawing fit on the index card? Explain.

Answer 1

The drawing will fit the index card

Explanation:

The scale use by Shannon is

1 inch represent 0.5 feet.

Thus, the length of the car in the drawing is 12 * 0.5 = 6 inch.

The size of the paper is 5 inch by 7 inch

Hence, considering the longest side of paper representing the length of the car, it can be said that the drawing will fit the index card.