SOLUTION: On a drawing with a scale of 1/8 in, 1 ft, a window is 3/4 in. wide. What is the actual width of the window? How would you get the answer?

SOLUTION: On a drawing with a scale of 1/8 in, 1 ft, a window is 3/4 in. wide. What is the actual width of the window? How would you get the answer?

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Question 150887: On a drawing with a scale of 1/8 in, 1 ft, a window is 3/4 in. wide. What is the actual width of the window? How would you get the answer?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up a ratio.
1/8 inch is to 1 ft as 3/4 inch is to W ft.
Mathematically it would be,

The window is 6 feet wide.
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