Lila measured a shopping center and made a scale drawing. She used the scale 20 inches : 7 feet. If a bakery in the shopping center is 140 inches wide in the drawing, how wide is the actual bakery?
feet
To find the actual width of the bakery, we need to convert the measurement given in the drawing to the actual measurement using the scale.
If the scale is 20 inches : 7 feet, we can set up a proportion to find the actual measurement:
20 inches / 7 feet = 140 inches / x
To find x, we can cross-multiply and solve for x:
20 * x = 7 * 140
20x = 980
Dividing both sides of the equation by 20:
x = 980 / 20
x = 49
Therefore, the actual width of the bakery is 49 feet.