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Marshall measured a house and made a scale drawing. He used the scale 7 millimeters : 4 meters. The garage is 8 meters wide in real life. How wide is the garage in the drawing?

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Using proportions, it is found that the garage is 14 millimeters wide in the drawing.

What is a proportion?

  • A proportion is a fraction of total amount, and the measures are related using a rule of three.
  • In this problem, the scale states that a drawing of 7 millimeters represent a real dimension of 4 meters. Considering the garage is 8 meters wide in real life, what will be the dimension of the drawing?

The rule of three is:

7 millimeters - 4 meters

x millimeters - 8 meters

Applying cross multiplication:

[tex]4x = 7(8)[/tex]

[tex]x = \frac{56}{4}[/tex]

[tex]x = 14[/tex]

The garage is 14 millimeters wide in the drawing.

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