Question

You have been asked to build a scale model of your school out of toothpicks. Imagine your school is 30 feet tall. Your scale is 1 ft:1.26 cm.

A)If a toothpick is 6.3cm tall, how many toothpicks tall will your model be?
B)Your mother is out of thoothpics, and suggests you use cotton swabs instead. You measure them, and they are 7.6cm tall. How many cotton swabs tall will your model be?

Answer 1

first for the toothpicks: 30×1.26=37.8
37.8/6.3=6
you need 6 toothpicks
for the cotton swabs 37.8/7.6= 4.9
you need approximately 5 cotton swabs