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the boeing 747 airplane is 250 feet in length. If a model of this airplane is 8 inches long, what scale was used to create the model.

please help!!!


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answer: The wingspan is 36 m.

Using a proportion to solve this, we write the scale factor as a ratio first:  19/38, since 19 is the size of the model's length and 38 is the real length.  For the second ratio, we have 18 for the size of the model wingspan and x for the real wingspan:

19/38 = 18/x

Cross multiply:

19*x = 38*18

19x = 684

36m because 250 divided by 8=36m