Scale Drawings and Scale Models

Bob drafts his favorite race car on a scale drawing. The drawing scale is 2 inches for each foot. If the drawing is 30 inches long, how long is the actual race car?

• 60 in

• 60 ft

• 15 in

• 15 ft

Adam drafts his favorite tractor trailer on a scale drawing. The drawing scale is 3 inches for each foot. If the drawing is 20 inches long, how long is the actual tractor trailer?

• 1/3 ft

• 60 ft

• 6 2/3 ft

• 3/20 ft

The scale on a particular drawing is 5 cm for every 75 miles. If the drawing shows that a plane flies a distance of 25 cm, how many miles did the plane actually fly?

• 15 mi

• 375 mi

• 125 mi

• 3 mi

A map has a scale of 2 cm for every 25 miles. The distance on the map between Griffin Park and the San Diego Zoo is 10 cm. How far is the actual distance?

• 125 mi

• 250 mi

• 20 mi

• 5 mi

Find the width of a parking spot on a scale drawing if the parking spot is 2.5 meters wide and the scale is 1 centimeter = 2 meters

• 5 m

• 1.25 in

• 0.8in

• 1.25 m

Lin has a scale model of a modern train. The model is created at a scale of 1 to 48. The height of the model train is 102 millimeters. What is the actual height of the train?

• 4,896,000 millimeters

• 4,896 millimeters

• 48.96 meters

• 2.125 millimeters

Scale is 1cm = 8km. Hatboro and Smithville are 24cm apart on the map, what is the actual distance between the 2 cities?

• 87 km

• 216 km 

• 33 km

• 192 km

A two-dimensional drawing that is similar to the object it represents

• Scale model

• Scale drawing

• Proportion

• Ratio

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

• True

• False

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?

• 5 miles

• 2.5 miles

• 10 miles

• 7 miles