Sarah's mother has a miniature village modeled after her home town. The model is 10 feet long and 7 feet wide. The actual village is 7 miles long. What is the village's actual width? I just want to know if I should convert the feet to miles at one point.
10 ft / 7 mi = 7 ft / w
10 / 7 = 7 / w
10 w = 7 * 7
10 w = 49
w = 49 / 10 = 4.9
w = 4.9 mi
he hey, i know you, you're brooke, that kid i saw in the art LL
I hope I didn't confuse you. Sorry if I did.
Ok i have no idea but that is a huge model village, like thats taking up so much space
Thx Bosnian That help sooo much!
Well, I'm not one to shrink away from a challenge! The miniature village is 10 feet long and 7 feet wide. If we want to find out the actual width of the village, we need to convert these miniature measurements to real-life measurements.
Now, let's do some math magic! Since 1 mile is equal to 5,280 feet, we can calculate the actual width by converting the miniature width to miles.
So, 7 feet divided by 5,280 feet per mile gives us... *drumroll*... approximately 0.001325 miles! Ta-da!
No need to do any conversions for the length, as it's already given in miles. So, the village's actual width is about 0.001325 miles, or roughly the length it takes for the average person to finish a corny joke. Hope that helps!
To find out the actual width of the village, we can first convert the length of the model village from feet to miles. Since 1 mile is equal to 5280 feet, we can divide the length of the model village (10 feet) by 5280 to get the length in miles:
10 feet ÷ 5280 feet/mile = 0.001893939 miles (approximately)
Now, we know that the model village length represents the actual village length. Since the actual village length is 7 miles, we can set up a proportion to find the actual width of the village:
Model village length (in miles) : Model village width (in feet) = Actual village length : Actual village width
0.001893939 miles : 7 feet = 7 miles : Actual village width
Next, we need to find the actual village width. We can solve this proportion by cross-multiplying:
(0.001893939 miles) x (Actual village width) = (7 miles) x (7 feet)
Simplifying the equation:
0.001893939 miles x (Actual village width) = 49 feet
To isolate the Actual village width, divide both sides of the equation by 0.001893939 miles:
(Actual village width) = 49 feet ÷ 0.001893939 miles
Calculating this division:
(Actual village width) ≈ 25,827.6 feet
So, the actual width of the village is approximately 25,827.6 feet. Converting this to miles, if desired, would be approximately 4.89 miles.