sarah is making a scale drawing of a painting that is 48 inches wide and 120 inches high her paper is 12 inches wide she decides to use the scale 1 in= 4 in what does the height of her paper need to be to fit the draawing
The height of the painting is 120 inches and she is using a scale of 1 inch on the drawing equals 4 inches on the actual painting. Therefore, the height of the scale drawing will be 120 inches / 4 = 30 inches.
Since the paper is 12 inches wide, the height of the paper needed to fit the drawing will be 30 inches.