A city planner needs to make a model of the city. In real life, the city courthouse is 60 feet tall. A building across the street is 80 feet tall. If the model courthouse is 1 foot tall, how tall is the model building across the street?
Answer: The model of the building across the street would be 4/3 ft which is approximately 1.3334 ft tall
Explanation: We are given that the planner models a 60 ft tall building to be 1 foot. Since the planner would be using the same scale, we can simply use cross multiplication to find how tall 80 ft will be on the model as follows: 60 ft is modeled as 1 foot 80 ft is modeled as ?? ft the model of the building across the street would be = (80*1) / (60) = 4/3 ft = 1.334 ft tall
