Quiz about Scale Drawings and Proportions

Question 1

Pam drew a scale drawing of a game room. She used the scale 1 inch : 2 feet. If the air hockey table is 5 inches in the drawing, how long is the actual air hockey table?

Accepted Answer

10 feet

Answer

2.5 feet

Answer

5 feet

Answer

15 feet

Question 2

Vocabulary: A proportional drawing of an object is called...

Accepted Answer

scale drawing

Answer

similar figures

Answer

scale

Answer

constant of proportionality

Question 3

Spencer measured a house and its lot and made a scale drawing. He used the scale 3 inches : 2 feet. In the drawing, the deck is 90 inches long. What is the length of the actual deck?

Accepted Answer

60 feet

Answer

6 feet

Answer

180 feet

Answer

270 feet

Question 4

Edgar drew a scale drawing of the town library. The scale of the drawing was 5 centimeters : 2 meters. The parking lot is 34 meters wide in real life. How wide is the parking lot in the drawing?

Accepted Answer

85 cm

Answer

68 cm

Answer

13.6 cm

Answer

170 cm

Question 5

Ronnie measured the elementary school and made a scale drawing. He used the scale 8 millimeters : 6 meters. If the school yard is 112 millimeters in the drawing, how long is the actual school yard?

Accepted Answer

84 meters

Answer

96 meters

Answer

149.3 meters

Answer

672 meters

Question 6

The scale on a road map is ¹/₄ cm = 12.5 miles. Kayla measures the distance on the map between Rockland and Newburry as 7 cm. What is the actual distance, in miles, between the cities?

Accepted Answer

350 miles

Answer

300 miles

Answer

2.5 miles

Answer

0.14 miles

Question 7

Bryan made a scale drawing of a house and its lot. He used the scale 1 inch : 4 feet. The backyard is 48 feet wide in real life. How wide is the yard in the drawing?

Accepted Answer

12 inches

Answer

10 inches

Answer

576 inches

Answer

192 inches

Question 8

On the map, from Denver to Chicago is 3 inches. If the scale is 1 in = 300 miles, find the actual distance.

Accepted Answer

900 miles

Answer

300 miles

Answer

1000 miles

Answer

600 miles

Question 9

Vocabulary: A ratio between the measurements of the drawing and of the actual object.

Accepted Answer

scale

Answer

scale drawing

Answer

constant of proportionality

Answer

unit rate

Question 10

The scale drawing car length is 3 cm. If the scale is ¹/₂ cm : 2 ft, what is the actual car length?

Accepted Answer

12 feet

Answer

16 feet

Answer

10 feet

Answer

4 feet

Question 11

A model of a house was built using the scale 5 in : 25 ft. If a window in the model is 1.5 in. wide, how wide is the actual window?

Accepted Answer

7.5 ft

Answer

90 ft

Answer

4.5 ft

Answer

45 in

Question 12

On a map, the distance between Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee, is 1 ³/₄ inches. The scale of the map is 1 in : 100 mi. What is the actual distance between the two cities?

Accepted Answer

175 miles

Answer

200 miles

Answer

134 miles

Answer

125 miles

Question 13

A blueprint was using a scale of 3 cm = 4.5 m. Find the actual length if it is 5 cm on the drawing.

Accepted Answer

7.5

Answer

13.5

Answer

1.5

Answer

1.7

Question 14

A blueprint was using a scale of 3.5 cm = 17.5 m. Find length on the drawing if it is 45 meters in real life.

Accepted Answer

9 cm

Answer

12 cm

Answer

90 cm

Answer

15 cm

Question 15

The distance between two cities on a map is 4.125 inches. Find the actual distance if the scale on the map is 2 inches = 40 miles.

Accepted Answer

82.5 miles

Answer

165 miles

Answer

50 miles

Answer

41.25 miles

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