Question

A room is 15 feet long and 12 feet wide. A scale drawing of the room is 10 inches by 8 inches. What is the scale of inches in the drawing to inches in the actual room?

Enter the correct answer in the box.

Answer 1

The scale is 1:18 for the entire room, 1 inch in the diagram for 18 inches IRL

Explanation:

12 inches = 1 foot

Convert the feet to inches, then divide both sides of the ratio by the # of inches in the diagram

So for length:

10:(15*12)

10:180

1:18

And for width:

8:12(12)

8:144

1:18

Answer 2

18 inches

Explanation:

The question asks for scale of inches in the drawing and the actual room, so first convert 15 ft and 12 ft into inches.

1 foot= 12in x 1ft= 12 inches

15 feet= 12in x 15ft = 180 inches

12 feet= 12in x 12ft = 144 inches

The room is 180 inches long and 144 inches wide.

To find the scale, set up a proportion to the drawing to the room.

`(10)/(8) =(180)/(144)`

You can see that the scale is 18 inches because to get from 180 to 10, you multiply by 18, and the same thing as 8, you would multiply 8 by 18 to get to 144.