What's the Scale?
Riddles
Corresponding Parts/Area
Grab Bag
Miscellaneous
100
The scale factor from triangle PQR To triangle STU.
What is 1.5?
100
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
100
The point that corresponds to Point P.
What is point S?
100
True/False
The corresponding angles of similar figures are always congruent (the same)
What is true?
100
length x width
What is Area?
200
Triangle ABC has sides measuring 5, 6, and 7 cm. Triangle DEF has sides measuring 10, 12, and 14 cm. What is the scale factor?
What is 2?
200
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
200
The line segment that corresponds to line segment PQ.
What is line segment ST?
200
True or False, when I enlarge a shape, it gets bigger
TRUE
200
The reciprocal of 4/5
What is 5/4?
300
The smaller rectangle is the original, and the larger rectangle is the scale copy.
The smaller rectangle has a width of 5 cm and a length of 8 cm.
The larger rectangle has a width of 15 cm and a length of 24 cm.
What is the scale factor used to make the scale copy?
What is 3?
300
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He's bald
300
The angle that corresponds to angle PQR.
What is angle STU?
300
True/False
If my scale factor is 1, my shape gets smaller
What is false?
300
Question 11. A scale drawing of the floor of a rectangular-shaped kitchen has a length of 2.5 inches and a width of 1.5 inches.
The drawing has a scale of 1 inch = 12 feet.
What is the area, in square feet, of the actual kitchen?
What is 48 square feet?
400
A scale drawing of a rectangular swimming pool is 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. The actual pool is 180 feet long. What is the area of the actual pool, in square feet?
What is 21,600 square feet?
400
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
400
Question 8.
The rectangular floor of a gymnasium is 50 feet in length and 30 feet in width.
A scale drawing of the gym floor has a length of 10 inches.
What is the area, in square inches, of the gym floor on the scale drawing?
What is 60 square inches?
400
True/False
Multiplying by a scale factor less than 1 causes a shape to get bigger.
What is false?
400
Question 7. In a scale drawing of a park, 1 cm represents 3 1/2 meters. If the length of walking trail is 5 1/4 cm on the scale drawing, what is the actual length of the trail in meters?
What is 18 3/8 meters long?
500
ABC and DEF are similar. ABC has side lengths 3, 9, 10 and DEF has side lengths 12,36,40. What is my scale factor from ABC to DEF?
What is 4?
500
A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
He was born on February 29
500
Question 10
Maria is designing a rectangular poster for her school’s art show. She first sketches her design on a piece of paper as described below. She uses the entire piece of paper for her design.
The paper has a length of 10 inches and a width of 7 inches.
The scale factor is 1 inch = 2 feet.
What is the actual area, in square feet, of the poster that Maria will create?
What is 280 square feet?
500
9) A map has a scale of 1 centimeter = 40 miles. The actual distance between Chicago and Detroit is 240 miles. What is the distance, in centimeters, between the two cities on the map?
What is 6 cm?
500
What is the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 7 and width of 3.
20