Name: ____________________________
Ratios and Proportions – Scaled Drawings
1
Kyle measured his house and made a scale
drawing. He used the scale 1 inch = 9 feet.
The wraparound porch is 54 feet long in real
life. How long is it in the scale drawing?
A
5 inches
C
7 inches
B
6 inches
D
8 inches
Date: _________
PreAlgebra
5
Sheet # 02 - 17
The distance between the gym and the main
entrance of a school is 7 inches on a map. The
scale of the map is 2 inches = 75 feet. What is
the actual distance between the main entrance
and the gym?
Show all work.
Answer _____________
2
The scale of a map is ¼ inch = 12 miles. The
distance between two cities on the map is 3 ¼
inches. What is the actual distance, in miles,
between the two cities?
A
37 miles
C
144 miles
B
39 miles
D
156 miles
6
The scale of a map is ½ inch = 50 miles. The
distance between two cities is 6.5 inches.
What is the actual distance, in miles, between
the two cities?
Show all work.
Answer _____________
3
Walker made a scale drawing of his favorite
sports car. In the drawing, the distance
between the front and back tires was 2.5
inches. If the distance between the tires in real
life is 15 feet, what is the scale that Walker
used?
A
1 inch = 2.5 feet
C
1 inch = 6 feet
B
2 inches = 15 feet
D
15 inches = 1 foot
7
Juliette measured all the buildings at her
college for a scale drawing. She used the scale
1 cm = 6 meters. A building at the college is
144 meters long in real life. How long is it in
the drawing?
Show all work.
Answer _____________
8
4
David made a scale drawing of a mural he is
going to paint. He used a scale of 1 cm = 4 ft.
If the actual mural will be 16 feet long, how
long is the mural in David’s drawing?
A
.25 cm
C
12 cm
B
4 cm
D
64 cm
Catherine wants to make a scale drawing of
her bedroom, which is 10 feet long by 8 feet
wide. If she uses a scale of 1 cm = 3 feet, how
big would the bedroom be in her scale
drawing?
Show all work.
Answer _____________
9
Haley is using this map to find her way
around a carnival. If she walks directly from
the ticket booth to the dunk tank, how far will
she walk?
Gabby is planning a car trip from Niagara
12 Falls to East Aurora. What is the approximate
driving distance from Niagara Falls to East
Aurora?
A
20 miles
C
40 miles
B
30 miles
D
50 miles
The scale drawing below is a rendering of a
10 new car. Measure and determine the actual
length of the car.
Brianna and her family drove from Tucson to
13 the Grand Canyon. The scale map below
A
1.75 m
C
7.3 m
B
2.1 m
D
23.3 m
A kangaroo named Skippy travels from
11 Sydney to Brisbane. Based on the scale
drawing below, what is the distance, in miles,
Skippy travels?
shows the route they took and the distance
they drove. About how many miles did
Brianna and her family drive from Tucson to
Phoenix?
A
75 miles
C
125 miles
B
100 miles
D
150 miles