Question

Your boss sends you an email and explains that your fourth location is to Ellis Island to visit the Statue of Liberty. She emails you a scale drawing that one of the architectures in Spain created. On the scale drawing, a scale of 1/61 <—(a fraction) (inches to feet) was used, the height of the statue was 5 inches. How tall is the Statue of Liberty?

(Please explain thoroughly step by step on how you solved the problem.If you can,please provide an image on how you solved the problem.)

Answer 1

Answer:

305 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

We can name the actual height x so we get the equation $\frac{1}{61}x = 5$. Multiply both sides by 61 to get $x=305$. The answer would be feet because it wouldn't make sense if the statue of liberty was 305 inches