Scale Drawing

Use the scale drawing to create a proportion and find the height of the tree.

• 12.5 feet

• 8 feet

• 200 feet

Amanda made a scale drawing of a square garden, which has a side length of 25 feet. She used the scale 2 inches = 5 feet.

What will be the area of the scale drawing?

• 10 in²

• 25 in²

• 100 in²

• 484 in²

On a map, Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, are 5 inches apart. The distance between the cities is actually 210 miles.

What scale was used to create the map?

• 42 inches = 1 mile

• 1 inch = 42 miles

• 40 inches = 1 mile

• 
  1 inch = 40 miles

A scale drawing that measures 8 units wide and an original that measures 4 units wide has a scale factor of...

• 2:1

• 8:1

• bigger

• 1:2

• A

• B

• C

• D

• F

• G

• H

• J

On a map, 1 cm represents 3 km. The distance between the airport and the bus station on the map is 5.4 cm. What is the actual distance between the airport and the bus station?

• 16.2 km 

• 8.4 km 

• 2.4 km 

• 1.8 km

A drawing of a deck has a scale of 1 inch equal to 5 feet. The actual deck is 18 feet long. How long is the deck in the scale drawing?

• 5.0 inches

• 3.6 inches

• 1.3 inches

• 0.3 inch

Type your answer as a decimal or fraction.

A scale factor less than one creates ....

• a reduction

• an enlargement

• an exact copy

• none of the above