document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=235551>Question 235551</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> I have a question about scale drawsing and models. I am in 8th grade math. I know 1 inch equals 3 feet. I am trying to find the scale of a drawing that is 28 feet wide. On the drawing the apartment is 7 inches wide. I want to know how to create an equation to figure this out and other problems like this. Thanks! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "If I understood your question correctly, you have a real-life apartment that is 28 feet wide and a scale drawing of it that is 7 inches wide.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If you divide 7 inches by 7, you get 1 inch.  If you divide 28 feet by 7 you get 4 feet.  So your scale is then 1 inch = 4 feet.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Divide the inches/cm or whatever by whatever is necessary to make 1.  Then divide the number of feet, meters, or whatever by that same number.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "That means that if another dimension of the drawing is, say, 8 inches, then the real thing should measure 8 times 4 = 32 feet.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
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