Question

Martine’s town is building a volleyball court based on a scale drawing that is 40cm to 80cm and uses the scale 1cm:22.5cm write an equation for the proportional relation ship between drawing court lengths x in centimeters and court lengths in y centimeters

Answer 1

Answer:

$y=22.5x$

Step-by-step explanation:

we have that

The scale drawing is

$\frac{1}{22.5}\frac{cm}{cm}$

we know that

Using proportion find out the actual dimensions of the volleyball court

Let

x -----> drawing court lengths in cm

y ----> court lengths in cm

For x=40 cm

$\frac{1}{22.5}\frac{cm}{cm}=\frac{40}{y}\frac{cm}{cm}\\\\y=40*22.5\\\\y=900\ cm$

For x=80 cm

$\frac{1}{22.5}\frac{cm}{cm}=\frac{80}{y}\frac{cm}{cm}\\\\y=80*22.5\\\\y=1,800\ cm$

Find the equation for the proportional relation ship between drawing court lengths x in centimeters and court lengths in y centimeters

 A relationship between two variables, x, and y, represent a proportional variation if it can be expressed in the form $y/x=k$ or $y=kx$

For x=40 cm, y=900

substitute

$k=y/x$ -----> $k=900/40=22.5$

The equation is

$y=22.5x$