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7th grade
Course: 7th grade > Unit 8
Lesson 2: Scale drawings- Scale drawings
- Scale drawing: centimeters to kilometers
- Scale drawings
- Interpreting a scale drawing
- Scale drawing word problems
- Creating scale drawings
- Making a scale drawing
- Construct scale drawings
- Scale factors and area
- Solving a scale drawing word problem
- Relate scale drawings to area
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Scale drawing word problems
Use scale drawings to solve problems in real-world contexts.
Practice problem 1: Two figures
Practice problem 2: Map
Practice problem 3: Scale model
Practice problem 4: Moon challenge
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- who introduced scale drawing(58 votes)
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- why am i struggling so bad with basic math lol(66 votes)
- I wanna know the same thing lol , I just got mad for no reason this is basic stuff lol(29 votes)
- f whoever made math like wth(34 votes)
- The first two questions are kinda hard to understand. Can someone simplify them for me?(18 votes)
- for number two its 1 inch for 300 feet its easy for the second part after that(10 votes)
- This was so confusing I did not get it at all(26 votes)
- this is the most confusing thing ever(19 votes)
- I am so confused...It was so easy in the lessons!(24 votes)
- I is confused with problem 1,3,4. Plz help(8 votes)
- #1- If diagram A is the scaled image of diagram B, then diagram B is the original. If you were to set up a ratio, it would look something like this:
3 : 4
x : 7.2
Using this, you can figure out x. 7.2 / 4 = 1.8, which you multiply by 3 to get 5.4 (which is the answer).
#3- They tell you the scale is 1 : 180. In this case, it means that 1 ft (in the model) is equal to 180 real ft.
Width: 3 model ft = 3 x 180 = 540 real ft
Length: 4 model ft = 3 x 180 = 720 real ft
Then, to find the area of the real castle, you multiply 540 by 720 to get your answer: 388,800 sq. ft.
#4- The problem tells you that the moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles in real life. In the model, the moon has a diameter of 1 inch. Using this information, you can figure out the scale: 1 model inch = 2,000 real miles. So if the Earth is 8,000 miles in diameter, then the model Earth would be 4 inches in diameter. Finally, if the distance between them is 240,000 real miles, then the model distance between them would be 120 inches.
Sorry if it's a little wordy. Hope this helps!(27 votes)
- who created or made up math?(15 votes)
- Beginning in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics as a subject in its own right with Greek mathematics.[21] Around 300 BC, Euclid introduced the axiomatic method still used in mathematics today, consisting of definition, axiom, theorem, and proof.
For more info. check out this website!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#:~:text(11 votes)
- um i'm still really confused on how to do this(15 votes)