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xenn [34]
3 years ago
11

A museum has a wax sculpture of a historical village. The scale is 1.5:8. If the height of a hut in the sculpture is 5 feet, how

tall is the original hut to the nearest whole foot?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Oksi-84 [34.3K]3 years ago
4 0

Let us say that x is the real height of the original hut, therefore we can establish the equation:

5 : x = 1.5 : 8

5 / x = 1.5 / 8

 

Solving for x:

x = 5 * 8 / 1.5

x = 40 / 1.5

<span>x = 26.67 ft</span>

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