What's the Scale?
A map shows a park as 2 cm wide. The real park is 200 m wide. What is the scale written as "1 cm : ___" (drawing : real life)?
What is 1 cm : 100 m
Floor plans for a home have been drawn. Rectangle A on the drawing uses scale 1 cm : 10 m. Rectangle B uses scale 1 cm : 8 m. Which rectangle takes up more space?
What is Rectangle B?
On grid paper where each grid square is 1 cm × 1 cm on the drawing and the scale is 1 cm : 5 m, draw a rectangle that represents a real garden of 15 m by 10 m. What should the rectangle's drawing dimensions be in centimeters?
What is 3 cm by 2 cm?
Are the ratios 2 cm : 50 m and 1 cm : 25 m equivalent?
What is yes?
Write the scale as a unit rate when a drawing measures 5 cm and the actual object is 50 m.
" 1 cm : ______ m"
What is 1 cm : 10 m?
A model car scale is 1 cm : 24 m. If the real car is 4.8 m long, how long is the model in centimeters? (Give your answer as a number and label the units.)
What is 0.2 cm?
Mrs. R and Mr. Demarce both draw the same rectangular playground. Mrs. R uses a scale of 1 cm : 10 m. Mr. Demarce uses a scale of 1 cm : 8 m. Which drawing takes up more space on the paper?
What is Mr. Demarce?
(smaller the scale, the bigger the drawing)
Using scale 1 cm : 2 m, draw a rectangle on the grid that is 6 meters by 10 meters in real life. How many squares wide and tall will the rectangle be on the grid?
What is 3 cm by 5 cm?
A model uses scale 1 in : 6 ft. Is this equivalent to 1 in : 72 ft?
What is no?
A model shows 2.5 cm = 5 m. Write the scale in the form 1 cm = ____ m
What is 1 cm : 2 m?
A drawing uses the scale 1 cm : 50 m. A river on the drawing measures 7.2 cm. What is the actual length of the river in meters?
What is 360 meters?
Ms. H and Mrs. R both draw a rectangular farm.
Ms. H uses scale 1 cm : 10 m.
Mrs. R uses scale 1 cm : 15 m
The farm in Ms. H's drawing is 3 cm long
How long is the farm in Mrs. R's drawing?
What is 2 cm?
A student must create a rectangle on a grid using scale 2 cm : 25 m to represent a sports field that is 100 m long. What drawing length should they use?
What is 8 cm?
Determine the missing number in the scale to maintain equivalence: a drawing with scale 1 cm : 250 m is equivalent to _____ cm : 25,000 m
What is 100 cm?
A student measures a drawing length of 4 cm and says it represents 1.2 m. Write the scale.
What is 4 cm : 1.2 m? OR
What is 1 cm : 0.3 m?
A floor plan shows a room as 6 cm by 4.5 cm with scale 1 cm : 2 m. Find the actual dimensions in meters and compute the actual area in square meters.
What is 108 square meters?
Two students, Zander and Belle, each make a poster of the same school field.
Zander uses scale 1 cm : 4 m.
Belle uses scale 1 cm : 2 m
Zander's field is 12 cm long is his drawing.
How long is it in Belle's?
What is 24 cm?
Given a scale of 1 cm : 0.5 m, design a drawing rectangle that fits on a sheet with a maximum drawing dimension of 20 cm by 15 cm but represents a real rectangle as close as possible to 6 m × 4 m. Provide the drawing dimensions.
What is 12 cm by 8 cm?
Two scales are given:
Scale A is 1 cm : 0.5 m and Scale B is 2 cm : 1 m
Adjust one of the scales to make them equivalent.
What is A 1.5 cm : 0.5 m? OR
What is A 1 cm : 0.3333 m? OR
What is B 3 cm : 1.5 m? OR
What is B 2 cm : 1 m?
Given a real-life object that is 9 m long and a drawing has a scale of 3 cm : 12 m, find the length in the drawing.
What is 2.25 cm?
A blueprint uses the scale 1/8 inch : 1 foot. On the blueprint, a hallway is 3 1/4 inches long. What is the hallway's actual length in feet and inches?
Two students, Audrey and Austin, present scale plans for the same park.
Audrey's plan uses scale 1 in : 200 ft.
Austin's plan uses scale 1 in : 150 ft
Austin's plan has the length of the park equal to 15 in
What is the actual length of the park?
What is 2,250 ft?
You must create a rectangular drawing for a model where the real object is 3.6 km by 1.2 km. You have grid squares of 1 cm and want the drawing to fit within 30 cm×20 cm. With a scale of 1.5 cm : 0.2 km, find the dimensions of the drawn rectangle.
What is 9 cm by 27 cm.
A blueprint lists scale as 3 mm : 2 m. Convert this to a scale in the form 1 mm : _____ m
What is 1 mm : 0.67 m?
A drawing lists a scale of 1 cm : 12 m. A stone on the drawing measures 0.5 cm. What is the real diameter of the stone in centimeters?
What is 600 cm?