Question

At a height of 316 meters, the Bell Tower is the tallest building in Morgansville. Hank is creating a scale model of this building using

the scale 100 meters: 1 meter.

To the nearest tenth of a meter, what will be the height of the scale model?

Answer 1

Scale: 100 meters per 1 meter

Actual: 316 per unknown meters(our scale)

So order our units:-

Scale 1 x

_______ _______ = _______, solve for x;

Meters 100 316

1/100 = x/316

*316 *316

3.16 = x, 3.16 rounded = 3.20 is the scale.