A rectangular room on a blueprint is 2 inches wide and 5 inches long. If the scale of the blueprint to the actual room is 1:72, what is the width of the room?

This means that 1 inch on the blueprint represents 72 inches in the room. Then, 2 on the blueprint would represent how many inches in the room? Change your answer of inches to feet.

144

To find the width of the actual room, we need to use the scale ratio given in the problem.

The scale ratio of 1:72 means that 1 inch on the blueprint represents 72 inches in reality.

We know that the width of the room on the blueprint is 2 inches. Let's convert this to the width of the actual room.

Width on blueprint = 2 inches

Scale ratio = 1:72

Width of actual room = Width on blueprint * Scale ratio

Width of actual room = 2 inches * 72

Width of actual room = 144 inches

Therefore, the width of the actual room is 144 inches.