Homework Help: maths

Posted by shania d'silva on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:52am.

The scale of a floor plan is 1:200

in the scale diahgram, the width of the building is 14cms . Calculate the width of the building in metres

The length of the building is 32m. Calculate the lenght of the building in scale diagram in centimetres

maths - Reiny, Friday, October 2, 2009 at 8:18am
14/w = 1/200
cross-multiply, w = 14*200 cm
w = 2800 cm
= 2.8 m

repeat the same steps for the length

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