SOLUTION: Ab airplane weighs 2600 tons. How much would a model airplane with a scale of 1 to 100 weigh assuming it was made from the same materials? Express your answers in pounds.
Question 597712: Ab airplane weighs 2600 tons. How much would a model airplane with a scale of 1 to 100 weigh assuming it was made from the same materials? Express your answers in pounds. Answer by AnlytcPhil(1806) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! An airplane weighs 2600 tons. How much would a model airplane with a scale of 1 to 100 weigh assuming it was made from the same materials? Express your answers in pounds.
3600 tons = 3600×2000 lbs = 7200000 lbs
The scale of 1 to 100 is their variation in length, not weight or volume.
Weight (and volume) vary directly as the cube of the length.
So we divide the 7200000 lbs by 100³ = 1000000 and get 7.2 lbs.
Edwin