Question

You have been asked to build a scale model of your school out of toothpicks. Imagine your school is 30 feet tall. Your scale is 1 ft:1.47 cm.
If a toothpick is 6.3 cm tall, how many toothpicks tall will your model be?

Answer: The model will be 6 toothpicks tall.

Your mother is out of toothpicks, and suggests you use cotton swabs instead. You measure them, and they are 7.5 cm tall. How many cotton swabs tall will your model be? If necessary, round your answer to the nearest whole number.

The model will be approximately how many cotton swabs tall?

Answer 1

Alright, let's begin! We start with 37.8 and then divide it with..7.6! Now, we try to get the answer of that.

37.8 ÷ 7.6 = 4.973.

However, we need to bring it down to an estimate. It would then be 4.97. Although, we need to also see if our answer is correct.

4.97 × 7.6 = 37.7

There is more answers closer to the number but this should be the correct answer due to it being the answer of all the steps I used.

But wait! We need the round the answer to the nearest whole number. So, it would be 38.

So, overall, it will be 38 cotton swabs tall.

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