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You are recreating a scale drawing at a different scale. The original scale is 1 cm : 4 m. The new scale is 1 cm : 8 m. In the original drawing, the length of a segment is 6 centimeters. How long should the segment representing the same distance be in the new drawing?

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thedemon840

If the length segment is....6 cm

The length of the segment.., 6 × 4 = 24

In the new scale...the length of the segment would be....,,; 24/8 = 3cm

The length of the segment in the new scale

; 3 cm

You can set up a proportion.

[tex]\frac{1}{8}=\frac{6}{x}[/tex]

Now cross multiply.

[tex]1x=48[/tex]

Solve

[tex]x=48[/tex]

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