Question

A toy car that 0.12 m long is used to model the actions of an actual car that is 6m long. Which ratio shows the relationship between the sizes of the model and the actual car?

Answer 1

Answer:

We know that a 0.12m long toy car is used as a model of a 6m long car.

We want to find the ratio that shows the relationship between both cars (the toy one and the real one)

The ratio that shows the relationship between both measures is just the quotient between both lengths, for example, if we take:

0.12m/6m = 0.02

This means that the length of the toy car is 0.02 times the length of the long car.

We also could have:

6m/0.12m = 50

This means that the length of the real car is 50 times the length of the toy car.