Scale Drawing Adventures: Dimensions & Comparisons

A map has a scale of 1 inch to 5 miles. If a city is 3 inches away on the map, how many miles is it in real life?

• 20 miles

• 5 miles

• 10 miles

• 15 miles

A blueprint of a house shows the living room as 4 inches by 6 inches. If the scale is 1 inch to 2 feet, what are the actual dimensions of the living room in feet?

• 6 feet by 8 feet

• 8 feet by 12 feet

• 10 feet by 14 feet

• 4 feet by 6 feet

A model car is built at a scale of 1:10. If the actual car is 15 feet long, how long is the model car?

• 3 feet

• 1.5 feet

• 1 foot

• 2 feet

A park is represented on a map with a scale of 1 cm to 20 m. If the distance between two playgrounds on the map is 7 cm, what is the actual distance between them?

• 100 m

• 120 m

• 140 m

• 160 m

A drawing of a garden shows a flower bed that is 2 inches wide and 5 inches long. If the scale is 1 inch to 3 feet, what are the real dimensions of the flower bed in feet?

• 6 feet wide and 15 feet long

• 4 feet wide and 10 feet long

• 5 feet wide and 12 feet long

• 7 feet wide and 18 feet long

Two buildings are drawn on a scale of 1:50. If one building is 3 cm tall on the drawing, how tall is it in real life?

• 75 cm

• 300 cm

• 120 cm

• 150 cm

A scale model of a ship is 12 inches long. If the scale is 1:25, what is the actual length of the ship?

• 300 inches

• 150 inches

• 250 inches

• 400 inches

A classroom is drawn on a scale of 1 inch to 4 feet. If the drawing shows the classroom as 5 inches long, what is the actual length of the classroom?

• 15 feet

• 25 feet

• 20 feet

• 10 feet

A scale drawing of a soccer field shows it as 8 inches long. If the scale is 1 inch to 10 yards, how long is the actual soccer field in yards?

• 100 yards

• 70 yards

• 80 yards

• 90 yards

Two scaled drawings of houses show one house as 6 inches wide and the other as 4 inches wide. If both are drawn to the same scale of 1:100, which house is larger in real life and by how much?

• The second house is larger by 100 inches.

• The first house is larger by 200 inches.

• The first house is larger by 150 inches.

• Both houses are the same size in real life.