Question

Luke is drawing a map of his block. The actual block is 1800 feet long and 1260 feet wide. Luke needs his drawing to fit on his paper, so he decides to make the long side 10 inches.
What scale is Luke using?
What is the area of Luke's drawing in square inches?

Answer 1

The actual block is 1800 feet long and 1260 feet wide. We know that 1 foot is equivalent to 12 inches.

Luke is now using the Feet scale measurement.

Solving for the area in square inches is shown below:
Area = L * W
Area = (1800 feet *12 inches/1 foot) * (1260 feet *12 inches/1 foot)
Area = 326.592 x10^6 inches²