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

What is a scale factor

100

The original is 2 inch. scaled copy is 10 inches, find the scale factor.

x5

100

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

200

two parts that are in the same position within each shape

What are the corresponding parts

200

Two legs of Triangle A are 3 & 4

Two legs of Triangle B are 9 & 12

The answer is the Scale Factor from Triangle A to Triangle B

What is 3

200

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

200

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

200

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

300

a copy of a figure where every length in the original figure is multiplied by the same number.

What is a Scale Drawing or scale copy

300

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

300

Duncan measured a game room and made a scale drawing. The scale of the drawing was 8 inches : 3 feet. If the actual length of the pool table is 6 feet, how long is the pool table in the drawing?

16 inches

300

Clayton drew a scale drawing of a neighborhood park at a scale of 5 centimeters : 9 meters. In the drawing, the volleyball court is 10 centimeters long. What is the length of the actual volleyball court?

18 meters

300

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

400

All scaled drawings have these 2 things to help identify that they are scaled.

-All sides have the same scale factor.

-All corresponding angles are the same size.

400

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

400

A Flagpole is 30 ft tall. Using the scale 3 in : 5 ft, draw a flagpole and label it's height.

Flagpole should be labeled 18 inches tall
400

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

400
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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