Question

At a height of about 212 meters, One Shell Square is the tallest building in New Orleans. Marlie is creating a scale model of this building, using the scale 250 meters : 1 meter.
To the nearest tenth of a meter, what will be the height of the scale model?
Enter your answer as a decimal in the box.

Answer 1

$\bf \begin{array}{ccllll} building&model\\ \textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash&\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\\ 250&1\\ 212&x \end{array}\implies \cfrac{250}{212}=\cfrac{1}{x}$

solve for "x"