David made a scale drawing of his basketball goal. The basketball goal is 15 ft tall. In the drawing the basketball goal is 3 inches. What is a scale of the drawing
3/15 = 1/?
By the way, that hoop is not 15 feet up.
https://www.reference.com/world-view/official-height-basketball-hoop-59a0c16eb028fc5
If you are doing mathematical scale rather than x inches/ foot as architects do, you need feet to feet or inches to inches
3 inches = 1/4 foot
so
(1/4) foot / 15 feet = 1/60
the goal probably includes the backboard.
even so :)
To find the scale of the drawing, we need to determine how many inches in the drawing represent each foot in reality.
Given that the basketball goal is 15 ft tall in reality and its representation in the drawing is 3 inches, we can set up a proportion:
15 ft = 3 inches
To solve for the scale, we need to find out how many inches represent one foot. We can set up the proportion as follows:
x inches = 1 ft
Now we can cross-multiply and solve for x:
15 ft * x inches = 3 inches * 1 ft
15x = 3
Divide both sides of the equation by 15:
x = 3/15
Simplifying, we find:
x = 1/5
Therefore, the scale of the drawing is 1 inch represents 5 feet.