A museum has a wax sculpture of a historical village. the scale is 1.5:8. if the height of he hut in the sculpture is 5 feet, how tall was the original hut to the nearest whole foot?

For scale problems, you can use a proportion.

1.5 sculpture size is to 8 real size as 5 ft sculpture size is to x real size.

1.5/8 = (5 ft) / x)

1.5x = 8 * 5 ft

1.5x = 40 ft

x = (40 ft) / 1.5

x = 26.666 ... ft

The original is 27 ft