Question

Harold measured a neighborhood park and made a scale drawing. He used the scale 14 inches : 5 yards. If the actual length of a soccer field in the park is 100 yards, how long is the field in the drawing?

Answer 1

First you would want to covert the yards into inches so you don’t have any fractions. It would then be 14:180 and x:3600 so to solve this proportion you would next get 180x = 50,400 then you would divide 180 by 50,400 to isolate the variable which would then give you 280 inches