Question

Algebra 1
C.7 Scale drawings: word problems 837
Cara made a scale drawing of a house and its lot. The scale she used was
2 millimeters : 1 meter. The lawn in the backyard is 48 millimeters in the drawing. How wide
is the actual lawn?
meters
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Answer 1

Answer:

The actual wide of the lawn is 24 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

The scale drawing is

$\frac{2}{1}\frac{mm}{m}$

using proportion

Find out how wide  is the actual lawn if the lawn is 48 millimeters in the drawing

Let

x -----> the actual wide of the lawn

$\frac{2}{1}\frac{mm}{m}=\frac{48}{x}\frac{mm}{m}\\\\x=48/2\\\\x=24\ m$

therefore

The actual wide of the lawn is 24 meters