a boat builer wamts to make a modle of a schooner, a type of sailboatwith at least two masts. the schooner is 34 meters in lengt
h and has a beam of 8 meters (the measure or the widest point of a ship). If the builder wants her model to be 1.2 meters in length, what would be the length of the beam of the model?
First you should set up fractions equal to each other to see the size ratio
8/34 = x/1.2
As to make comparable fractions. Then you would cross multiply in order to get Divide both sides by 34 and you should get an answer of 0.28m for the model beam.
