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Math A

Practice with Scale Drawings 

 

Try the following problems:  

 

1.

The length of the thruway is 600 miles.  If 0.5 inch represents 50 miles, what is the length of the thruway on the map?

 

 

 

2.

The dimensions of a building are 250 feet by 120 feet.  If 1 inch represents 20 feet on a scale drawing, what are the dimensions of the building on the drawing?

 

 

3.

If one inch represents 10 feet, what dimensions would you use to make a scale drawing of a building 20 feet by 40 feet?

 

 

 

4.

If on a scale drawing 48 feet are represented by 12 inches, then a scale of 1/4 inch represents how many feet?

 

 

5.

If 1 inch represents 75 miles on a map, then how many inches will represent 1500 miles?

 

 


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