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?

Question

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?

Answer 1

Let's assume the actual distance between Lewis City and Bellstown is x kilometers and the actual distance between Lewis City and Jenkinsville is y kilometers.

Given that on the scale drawing the distance between Lewis City and Bellstown is 6 centimeters and the actual distance between Lewis City and Bellstown is x kilometers, we can set up a proportion:

6 centimeters / x kilometers = y centimeters / y kilometers

Now we can solve for y:

6 / x = y / y
6 = x

So, we can conclude that the distance between Lewis City and Jenkinsville on Arturo’s drawing is 6 centimeters.