Scale Drawings Practice

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📐 Part 1: Understanding Scale

1. A blueprint has a scale of 1 inch = 8 feet. If a room is 2.5 inches long on the blueprint, what is the actual length of the room?

16 feet

20 feet

24 feet

32 feet

2. A scale drawing uses the ratio 1:50. This means:

1 unit on the drawing = 50 units in real life

50 units on the drawing = 1 unit in real life

The drawing is 50 times larger than real life

The scale factor is 50

3. A model car is built with a scale of 1:24. If the real car is 144 inches long, how long should the model be?

6 inches

12 inches

18 inches

24 inches

4. Which of these could be reasonable scales for a floor plan? (Check all that apply)

1 inch = 4 feet

1 inch = 100 miles

1 cm = 2 meters

1 foot = 1 inch

📏 Part 2: Scale Calculations

5. A rectangular garden measures 3 inches by 2 inches on a scale drawing. The scale is 1 inch = 6 feet. What are the actual dimensions of the garden?

Length: ________ feet Width: ________ feet

6. A playground is 60 feet long and 40 feet wide. If you want to draw it on paper using a scale of 1 inch = 10 feet, what should the dimensions be on your drawing?

Drawing length: ________ inches Drawing width: ________ inches

7. Set up a proportion to solve this problem: On a map with scale 1 inch = 25 miles, two cities are 3.2 inches apart. What is the actual distance between the cities?

Proportion: ________ = ________

Actual distance: ________ miles

🎨 Part 3: Create Your Own Scale Drawing

8. Your classroom is 24 feet long and 18 feet wide. Create a scale drawing using the scale 1 inch = 3 feet. Draw your scale drawing in the box below and label the dimensions.

Scale drawing dimensions: ________ inches by ________ inches

9. Explain in your own words what a scale factor tells you about the relationship between a drawing and the real object.

10. A scale drawing of a basketball court shows the court as 4.7 inches long. If the actual court is 94 feet long, what is the scale of the drawing? (Express as "1 inch = ___ feet")

Scale: 1 inch = ________ feet

Scale Drawings Practice

Scale Drawings Practice

📐 Part 1: Understanding Scale

📏 Part 2: Scale Calculations

🎨 Part 3: Create Your Own Scale Drawing

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