SOLUTION: Before constructing a new kind of cargo ship, which is to be 320 meters long, a scale model is built and tested in a wave tank. The model is to be built on a scale of 1/80.
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Question 281859: Before constructing a new kind of cargo ship, which is to be 320 meters long, a scale model is built and tested in a wave tank. The model is to be built on a scale of 1/80.
a. How long will the model be?
b. If the model is 0.29 meters wide, how wide will the real ship be? Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The ratio of model to actual is 1/80
Let the actual size be x
1/80 = x/320
x=320/80
x=4 meters
The model is 0.29 meters wide
0.29/x = 1/80
width will be 0.29 * 80
=23.2 meters wide
