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Name ______________________________
Unit 4: Proportional Reasoning
Problem Set 35: Scale Drawings and Scale Models
Due Date ____________
Identify the scale factor.
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Alligator: 175 inches
Toy alligator: 7 inches
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Airplane: 24 feet
Model: 3 feet
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Car: 13.5 feet
Model car: 1.5 feet
Person: 66 inches
Action figure: 6 inches
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10. On a road map of Pennsylvania, the distance
from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., is 6.8
centimeters. What is the actual distance
between the cities if the map scale is
2 centimeters = 40 miles?
12. For a school project, LeeAnn is making a model
of the Empire State Building. She is using a
scale of 1 centimeter = 8 feet. The Empire State
Building is 1,252 feet tall. How tall is her model?
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136 miles
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156.5 centimeters tall