Sense or Nonsense?

2 answers:

7 0

Nonsense... The beetle in life size is 12/12 = 1
Therefore, to make a model bigger than this, it would have to be more than 12/12 (1). However, Penny is making it less than 1 whole meaning it would be smaller than life size.
Hope you understand this and it helps (-sorry, it's quite hard to explain!) :-)

WARRIOR [948]3 years ago

5 0

If that's how it's displayed, 7/12, then no it doesn't make sense. Using that scale factor is the equivalent shrinking it by 5/12s. And that's not larger than life size. If the scale factor is 7:12, then it would make sense, as the beetle would be 5/19 bigger than the original. It's not much, but it's a start for Penny

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Work Shown:

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An alternative method is to use the box method. This is where you set up a grid that helps you multiply out (5i-3)(2i+1)

See the diagram below.

Each of the 4 red terms in the boxes represents the result of multiplying the outer blue and green terms. Example: 5i times 2i = 10i^2 in row1, column1.