Question

Hayden likes building radio controlled sailboats with her father. One of the sails shaped like a tight triangle has side lengths measuring 6 inches 8 inches and 10 inches. To log her activity hayden creates and collects drawings of all the boats she and her father built together. Using the scale factor of 1/4 create a scale drawing of the sail

Answer 1

the scaled sail has lengths 1.5 inches, 2 inches, and 2.5 inches. the diagram is attached.

Explanation:

a scale factor of 1/4 means that the lengths of each side of the sail will be reduced by 0ne-forth (0.6) its original length. Therefore the lengths of the scale drawing before and after scaling are:

6 inches = 6 × 1/4 = 6 × 0.25 = 1.5 inches

8 inches = 7 × 0.25 = 2 inches

10 inches = 10 × 0.25 = 2.5 inches.

Therefore the scaled sail has lengths 1.5 inches, 2 inches, and 2.5 inches as shown in the diagram attached.