A portion of a daycare has been set aside for toddlers under 2. the area is a triangle with height 2.5 m and width 4 m. a scale drawing of the room is 5 cm tall. how wide is the scale drawing?

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Kailee Terrell

8 March, 11:31

A portion of a daycare has been set aside for toddlers under 2. the area is a triangle with height 2.5 m and width 4 m. a scale drawing of the room is 5 cm tall. how wide is the scale drawing?

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Camilla Pollard · Answer 1

To find the width of the scale drawing of the toddler room, you can set up a proportion/ratio.

2.5 m/4 m = 5 cm/x cm

To get from 2.5 to 5, you multiplied by 2, so you will do the same thing to 4 to find the missing scale width.

4 x 2 = 8 cm

The width of the scale drawing is 8 cm.