Scale Drawings
6.6 feet
A flag pole is 12 feet tall and casts a shadow 14.5 feet long. A student is outside admiring the beautiful flag pole and is 5.5 feet tall. How long would their shadow be?
208
A model rocket is built to the scale 1:30, or 1 inch = 30 feet. The actual rocket is 6240 feet tall. How tall is the model rocket in inches?
1 inch high and 7 inches wide
A rectangular wall is 4 feet high and 28 feet wide. Which dimensions could be used to draw a similar model?
30 inches
A scale drawing of a car has a scale of 1 inch to 1/2 a foot. The actual length of the care is 15 feet. What is the length of the drawing?
1 in. = 6 ft
A scale model of an airplane has a wingspan of 7 inches (in.). In real life, the same airplane has a wingspan of 42 feet (ft). What is the scale of the model to real life?
(window height should be 3 cm)
A window in Joshua's room has a height of 6 feet. Draw an illustration that shows the window drawn to a scale of 1 centimeter=2 feet.
36 yards
April made a scale drawing of a picnic area near the river. The scale of the drawing was 1 inch = 3 yards. If the picnic area is 12 inches in the drawing, how wide is the actual picnic area?
(base=18m, slanted side=12m)
Draw a figure that is a scale copy of the Parallelogram shown with a scale factor of 3/2.
(Square with side length of 2 inches)
Draw a figure that is a scale copy of the given square with a scale factor of 1/3.
3
Figure Y is a scale copy of Figure X. Which scale factor was used to create Figure Y?
7.6 inches
Hunter is building a scale model of a brachiosaurus. The dinosaur was 23 feet tall. His model has a scale factor of 1 in to 3 feet. How tall will his model be?
4.4 inches
On a map of Georgia, the legend reads 1 inch = 25 miles. If the distance between Atlanta and Savannah is approximately 110 miles, what is the distance on the map, in inches, between the two cities?
75 miles
On a road map, the distance between 2 cities is 2.5 inches. The map scale is 1 inch = 30 miles. What is the actual distance between the cities?
135 inches
On a scale drawing, a tree is 6 3/4 inches tall. The scale factor is 1/20. Find the height of the actual tree.
84 inches
On a scale drawing, the scale factor is 1/12. A plum tree is 7 inches tall on the scale drawing. What is the actual height of the tree?
21
Sergio made a scale drawing of his room on grid paper, as shown. If each square on the grid paper represents a side length of 3 feet, what is the length, in feet, of the longest wall in his room?
45 cm
Suemi is making a scale drawing of a field that is 150 yards long and 100 yards wide. If the field in Suemi's drawing is 30 centimeters wide, how long should the field be in the drawing?
2
The object in Figure JKLM is a scale copy of the object in figure EFGH. Which scale factor was used to create the object in Figure JKLM?
1/4
The scale drawing of a building has a height of 5 inches. The actual building is 20 feet high. How many inches in the scale drawing represent one foot on the actual building?
14
The scale on a road map indicates that 2 inches = 20 miles. How many inches would represent 140 miles on this road map?
1 inch
Using the scale, how long will Lauren's 8-foot mirror be in the scale drawing? Scale: 1/2 inch = 4 feet
15 inches
Ximena measured the auditorium and made a scale drawing. The scale she used was 1 inch = 4 feet. The actual length of the stage is 60 feet. How long is the stage in the drawing?
