Question

A carpenter’s sketch of a room does not include a scale. She measures a wall that has been built and finds that it is 38.5 ft. long. On the blueprint this wall is 7 in. long. What is the scale for this blueprint?

Answer 1

Answer:

1 inch on blueprint = 66 inch of real height

Step-by-step explanation:

Actual height of the wall is given as

H=38.5 ft.

so if we convert it into inch then we have

H=38.5 x 12

H=462inch  

now we know that this is shown by height of 7 inch in blueprint

so we have

7 inch on blueprint = 462 inch real height

so 1 inch of blueprint will show

$h=\frac{462}{7} =66inch$

so here we can say that scale will be

1 inch on blueprint = 66 inch of real height