You want to create a scale model for a building that will be 120feet tall and 40 feet wide. If you make the model 6 feet tall, how wide should it be?

Given:

Length of the building  = 120 feet

Width of the building = 40 feet

Length of the model = 6 feet

To find:

Width of the model.

Solution:

The scale model similar to the original figure and the corresponding sides of the similar figures are proportional.

Let x be the width of the building.

Therefore, the width of the model is 2 feet.

rounding to the nearest thousandth would be 452,000

so a parallelogram is just like a square base times height. multiply 40 and 39 to get 1560 inches.

a triangle is base times height divided by two. so multiply 7.9 and 5 and then divide it by 2 to get 19.75inches.

the kite can be split into two separate triangles and added together to get the total area. 30 x 4 /2 which equals 60. make sure to double it for the two triangles making 120.