Question

The drawing of a building shown below has a scale of 1 inch to 30 feet. what is the actual height, in feet, of the building? the numbers are 1.25in and the other one is 0.75in.

Answer 1

The actual height of building is 37.5 feet

Solution:

Given that,

The drawing of a building shown below has a scale of 1 inch to 30 feet

1 inch = 30 feet

The drawing of the building of this problem has the height of 1.25 inches and base of 0.75 inches

Thus actual height is given as:

height = 1.25 inches

$actual\ height = 1.25 \times 30\ feet\\\\actual height = 37.5\ feet$

The actual base is given as:

base = 0.75 inches

$actual\ base = 0.75 \times 30\ feet\\\\\actual\ base = 22.5\ feet$

Thus actual base is 22.5 feet