An environmental restoration project requires that you enlarge part of the map to a scale of 1 inch to 1000 feet. Calculate the factor by which it needs to be enlarged.
Don't you have to know what the current scale is??
1:24,000
Would enlarging it 24 times do the trick?
To calculate the factor by which the map needs to be enlarged, you need to determine the ratio between the scale of the original map and the desired scale.
In this case, the original scale is not provided, but we are given the desired scale which is 1 inch to 1000 feet. To find the factor, you need to convert one unit of the desired scale to the corresponding unit in the original scale.
Since the desired scale is 1 inch to 1000 feet, and we want to find the factor to enlarge the map, we need to find the number of feet in one inch. To do this, we divide 1000 by the number of inches in a foot, which is 12, because there are 12 inches in a foot.
So, the factor by which the map needs to be enlarged is calculated as follows:
1 inch * (1000 feet / 12 inches)
Simplifying the calculation:
1 inch * 83.33 feet/inch = 83.33
Therefore, the map needs to be enlarged by a factor of approximately 83.33.