What is the scale
Scale Problems
100

Eric drew a scale drawing of the high school. The parking lot, which is 54 meters wide in real life, is 6 centimeters wide in the drawing. What is the scale of the drawing?

1 cm : 9 meters

100

A blueprint has a scale of 2 cm = 6 feet. A house is 30 feet wide, the blueprint will be this distance in centimeters ...

What is 10 cm?

200

The distance from the park to the school is 18 miles.   On a map the distance is 6 cm. What is the scale of the map?

What is 1cm : 3 miles

200

Clayton drew a scale drawing of a hotel. The scale of the drawing was  1 inch : 8 feet. A room in the hotel is 3 inches long in the drawing. How long is the actual room? 

What is 24 feet

300

The dimensions of the classroom are 12 meters by 20 meters. If 1 inch represents 2 meters, what are the dimensions of the classroom on the drawing?

6 inches by 10 inches

300

Gabby made a scale drawing of the town library. She used the scale 1 centimeter : 5 meters. The actual width of the parking lot is 80 meters. How wide is the parking lot in the drawing? 

What is 16 cm?

400

What is the scale factor

What is 4:1 or 1/4?

400

Tara measured a boarding school and made a scale drawing. She used the scale 1 centimeter : 2 meters. The actual length of a building at the school is 40 meters. How long is the building in the drawing? 

What is 20 cm

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