Use the table to answer the question.
Town Town Actual Distance Between Towns
Bellstown Lewis City 120 km
Bellstown Jenkinsville 40 km
Jenkinsville Lewis City 60 km
Arturo creates a scale drawing showing these distances. If the distance between Lewis City and Bellstown is 6 centimeters on his drawing, how far apart are Lewis City and Jenkinsville on Arturo’s drawing?
(1 point)
Responses
2 centimeters
2 centimeters
12 centimeters
12 centimeters
0.05 centimeters
0.05 centimeters
3 centimeters
To find out how far apart Lewis City and Jenkinsville are on Arturo's drawing, we need to use the information from the table and scale it to the distance between Lewis City and Bellstown.
From the table, we know that the actual distance between Lewis City and Jenkinsville is 60 km. On the scale drawing, the distance between Lewis City and Bellstown is represented as 6 centimeters.
So, if the actual distance of 60 km is represented as 6 centimeters, then each centimeter on the scale drawing represents 10 km (60 km divided by 6 centimeters = 10 km per centimeter).
Therefore, on the scale drawing, the distance between Lewis City and Jenkinsville would be 6 centimeters x 1.5 = 9 centimeters.
So, the answer is 9 centimeters.