Vocabulary
Find the Scale Factor
Find the Scale Length
Find the Actual Length
Find the Scale Used
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What the original is multiplied by to create a scaled copy
Scale factor
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The original is 10 inch. scaled copy is 2 inches, find the scale factor.
x1/5 or 0.2
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Ivan drew a scale drawing of his backyard at a scale of 1in : 3ft. If Ivan's deck is 48 feet wide in real life, what is the width of the deck in the drawing?
16 in
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Trent measured an Italian restaurand and made a scale drawing with a scale of 1mm : 7 m. If the kitchen is 4mm in the drawing, how long is the actual kitchen?
28 meters
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David made a scale drawing of a house. In real life, the garage is 10 meters long. It is 2 millimeters long in the drawing.
What is the scale of the drawing, 1mm : _________
5 meters
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How do you find scale factor
New divided by original
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Two legs of Triangle A are 3.5 & 4.25
Two legs of Triangle B are 14 & 17
What is the Scale Factor from Triangle A to Triangle B
4
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Mitch was looking at a blueprint of West Lake that has a scale of 1 cm : 9 m. If the actual width of the building is 90 meters, what is the width of the school in the drawing?
10 centimeters
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Phillip drew a to-scale floor plan of his house. If the scale he used was 1 in : 4ft, and he drew the driveway 3 inches wide, how wide is the driveway in real life?
12 feet
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Anne made a scale drawing of a house and its lot. The backyard is 5 inches long in the drawing. The actual yard is 50 feet long.
What scale did Anne use for the drawing?
1in : _____________
10 feet
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A copy of a figure where every length in the original figure is multiplied by the same number.
Scale Drawing or scale copy
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Mr. A's Drawing of his house is drawn 12 inches tall. it is actually 18 feet tall. What is the scale factor? AKA 1 in = ? ft.
1 in = 1.5 feet
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Duncan measured his pool and made a scale drawing. The scale of the drawing was 8 inches : 3 feet. If the actual length of the pool is 63 feet, how long is the pool in the drawing?
168 inches
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Clayton drew a scale drawing of a neighborhood park at a scale of 3 centimeters : 8 meters. In the drawing, the volleyball court is 12 centimeters long. What is the length of the actual volleyball court?
32 meters
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Tommy measured a county park and made a scale drawing. The picnic area, which is 86 yards wide in real life, is 43 inches wide in the drawing.
What scale did Tommy use? 1in : ____________
2 yards
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All scaled drawings have these 2 things in order to be a scaled copy.
-All sides have the same scale factor/scale.
-All corresponding angles are the same size.
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In SS. a map has a two cities 4 inches apart. you know they are 320 miles apart. Find the map's distance scale.
1 in = 80 miles
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A Flagpole is 30 ft tall. Using the scale 3 in : 5 ft, draw a flagpole and label it's height.
18 inches tall
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A field is drawn to be 7 inches long in a scaled drawing.
They used a scale of 2in = 46 feet.
How long is the actual field?
161 feet
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A teacher has a globe that has a circumference of 2 ft. If the circumference of the actual earth is 24,901 mi, What scale was used to create the globe?
2 ft : 24,901 mi
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What is the point of a scale on a scale drawing?
Allows you to convert measurements on the paper into real-life sizes.
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Find X.
12
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A swimming pool company is designing a pool that will be 25 meters long. If the construction drawing uses a scale of 1 = 50, what will the pool’s length be on the drawing?
0.5m
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A landscape designer is working with a scale of 1 to 4 to plan a walking path. If the path is shown as 16cm on the design, how long will the actual path be?
64cm
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A blueprint shows a room that is 8 centimeters long. The actual room is 28 feet long.
What is the scale of the blueprint?
1cm=3.5ft