SOLUTION: Dwayne made a scale drawing of a neighborhood park. The scale he used was 1 inch = 2 yards. A soccer field in the park is 27 inches in the drawing. How wide is the actual field?

Question 1004893: Dwayne made a scale drawing of a neighborhood park. The scale he used was 1 inch = 2 yards. A soccer field in the park is 27 inches in the drawing. How wide is the actual field?
Found 2 solutions by fractalier, josmiceli:
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can write the proportion

recognizing that inches are on the top and yards are on bottom...
If we solve
1 in / 2 yds = 27 in / x yd we get
x = 54 yards
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the scale to convert inches to yards
[ 2 yds / 1 in ] x [ 27 in ] = [ 54 yds ]
The field is 54 yds wide
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