Question

Suppose you receive a postcard from a good friend with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The postcard is 3.5 inches high and 5.5 inches wide. The fine print on the postcard states that the scale of the picture is 1:19,600. Based on the scale, what's the actual length of the Golden Gate Bridge?
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Answer 1

Based on the scale, the actual length of the Golden Gate Bridge is  68,600 inches.

What is the actual length of the Bridge?

A scale drawing is a reduced form in terms of dimensions of an original image / building / object. The scale drawing is usually reduced at a constant dimension. An example of a scale drawing is a map.

The scale of a drawing is usually written in this format -  length in the drawing, a colon (:), then the matching length on the original image. An example of a scale is 1 : 19,600. This scale means that 1 inch of the postcard represents 19.600 of the original Golden Gate Bridge.

Actual length of the Bridge = scale x length of the bridge in the postcard

19,600 x 3.5 = 68,600 inches

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