Scale Drawings

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What is a scale drawing?

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A two-dimensional representation of an actual object or place.

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True or False: The scale tells us what some length on the scale drawing represents in actual length

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True

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Your scale is 1 inch to 5 miles. If the drawing shows a road that is 2 inches long, how many miles is the actual road?

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10 miles

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Kiran drew a floor plan of his classroom using the scale 1 inch to 6 feet. Kiran's drawing is 4 inches wide and 5.5 inches long. What are the dimensions of the actual classroom?

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24 feet wide and 33 feet long

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Kiran wants to make a larger scale drawing of his classroom. Current scale: 1 inch to 72 inches. Which scale could he use? Options: 1 to 50, 1 to 72, 1 to 100.

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1 to 50

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Scale model of a train: 1 to 48, model height: 102 mm. What is the actual height?

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4,896 millimeters

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Kiera measured a farm and made a scale drawing. In real life, the goat pen is 18 meters long. It is 6 centimeters long in the drawing. What scale did Kiera use for the drawing? Options: 1 cm = 6 meters, 1 m = 18 centimeters, 18 centimeters = 6 meters, 1 cm = 3 meters

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1 cm = 3 meters

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A scale on a hiking map shows that 3 inches represents 1.25 miles. What number of inches on the map represent 10 actual miles?

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24 inches

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