Question

Sylvia read that the height of the Empire State Building is 443.2 m and wants to build a scale model of the building in her room. She knows that the height of the ceiling in her room is 8ft. Write a scale that would allow a scale model of the Empire State Building in Slyvia's bedroom so that the top of the building would just touch her ceiling.

Answer 1

`Scale = 1ft : 55.4m`\

Explanation:

Given

`Height = 443.2m` --- Empire State Building.

`Height = 8ft` --- Her Room

Required

Determine the scale model

The scale model is calculated as thus:

`Scale = Her\ Room: Empire\ Building`

`Scale = 8ft : 443.2m`

Divide both ration by

`Scale = 8ft/8 : 443.2m/8`

`Scale = 1ft : 55.4m`

Hence. the scale she'll use is 1 ft her room to represent 55.4 m of the state building