Question

Guillermo needs a scale drawing of his house placed on its suburban lot. The lot is 56' wide and 100' deep. The garage is 20' back from the street. He has a sketch of his house – not drawn to scale – with the measurements shown below.
a. Use graph paper and a ruler to create a scale drawing of Guillermo’s house on its lot. Be sure to state your scale.

b. Guillermo wants to put a rectangular swimming pool in his backyard. What is the largest pool you would advise him to have installed?

Answer 1

The length of his house 55' (38'+17') plus the 20' from the street leaves 25' behind his house
because the lot is 56' wide the maximum space that the pool could take up is 56'*25'

Answer 2

Answer:

I did a scaled drawing of Guillermo’s house using Corel Draw 2018 Software and attached the file in Pdf format and Jpg format for your viewing pleasure.

Step-by-step explanation:

(a) The total area of Guillermo’s suburban plot according to the question is 100 by 56 inches. To draw to scale, I had to use a scale of 1inches on paper to 10 inches on the plot (1:10 inches). With the help of Ruler and Gridlines in the Corel Draw software, I was able to draw the house to scale and applied dimensions.

(b) From the drawing and information given in the question, we can deduce the following.

The length of the house is 55 inch and the length of the space from the street to his garage is 20 inches, making a total of 75 inches.

Subtract 75 inches from the total length of 100 inches we have 25 left at his back yard

The total width of the plot is 56 inches

the maximum space available for him to build a is 25 by 56 inches.

My advice to Guillermo is that if he wants a rectangular swimming pool installed in his backyard, the pool size can be less than but should not exceed 25 x 56 inches