Question

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is 220 feet tall. If a model of the bridge is created with a scale of 3 feet = 80 feet, how tall is the model?

Answer 1

5866.66 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Step 1:

Let the Golden gate bridge be 220 feet tall before using scale ratio.

Here the scale ratio given is for 3 feet = 80 feet is the scale ratio.

Step 2:

To convert the 220 feet tall gate bridge in this conversion we have to do following things.

Let 220 feet contains 73.33 × 3 feet.

For every 3 feet it is equal to 80 feet.

220 feet is approx equal to 73.33 × 80 = 5866.66 feet