Question

Amy drew a scale drawing of a shopping center. The scale she used was 1 inch : 3 feet. If a bakery in the shopping center is 16 inches wide in the drawing, how wide is the actual bakery?​

Answer 1

48 ft

Explanation:

We can use ratios to solve

1 inch 16 inches

------------ = -------------

3 ft x ft

Using cross products

1 * x = 3 * 16

x = 48

48 ft