Question

Jacob saw a model of a building that will be built in his city. The model has a height of 40 centimeters and will be built to a scale of 1:50. What is the actual height of the building? (1 m = 100 cm) meters 2 5 6 6 8 8 9 9

Answer 1

The model of the building has a height of 40 centimeters . And the scale is 1 : 50. The actual height of the building can be calculated below

$\begin{gathered} 1\text{ cm=50 m} \\ 40\text{ cm = ?} \\ \text{cross multiply} \\ \text{actual height of th building=}50\times40=2000\text{ meters} \end{gathered}$