Question

Nathan drew a scale drawing of a hotel. A room in the hotel is 55 inches long in the drawing. The actual room is 22 feet long. What scale did Nathan use?

Answer 1

Nathan use scale of 5 inches : 2 feet.

Explanation:

Given:

Nathan drew a scale drawing of a hotel.

A room in the hotel is 55 inches long in the drawing.

The actual room is 22 feet long.

Now, to find the scale Nathan use.

The scale drawing of room = 55 inches.

The actual room = 22 feet.

Now, to get the scale Nathan use we set the ratio:

The scale drawing of room : The actual room.

=
`55\ inches:22\ feet`

`=(55)/(22)`

`=(5)/(2)`

`=5\ inches:2\ feet.`

Therefore, Nathan use scale of 5 inches : 2 feet.