Question

You have been asked to build a scale model of a restaurant out of bottle caps. The restaurant is 20 feet tall. Your scale is 2.4 cm: 1 foot. A bottle cap is 1.2 cm tall. About how many bottle caps tall will your model be?

Answer 1

Answer:

$40\ bottle\ caps$

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

The scale is $\frac{2.4}{1}\ \frac{cm}{ft}$

That means

2.4 cm in the model represent 1 foot in the real

In this problem

The restaurant is 20 feet tall

Find the height of the model

Multiply the actual height of the restaurant by the scale 2.4

$20\ ft=20(2.4)=48\ cm$

A bottle cap is 1.2 cm tall

To find out the number of bottle caps divide the height of the model by 1.2

$\frac{48}{1.2}= 40\ bottle\ caps$