Question

You have been asked to build a scale model of a restaurant out of bottle caps. The restaurant is 20 feet tall. Your scale is 2.4 cm to 1 foot. A bottle cap is 1.2 cm tall Pete. About how many bottle caps or will your model Be?

Answer 1

Answer: 40 bottle caps.

Explanation:

The scale means that 1 foot in the real restaurant is 2.4 cm in the model. So, the 20 feet tall restaurant is 20 * 2.4 = 48 cm tall in the model.

Therefore, the model will need 48 / 1.2 = 40 bottle caps.