7-7 Scale Drawings

BY: ME
 Vocabulary
• Scale drawing: a two-dimensional drawing
that accurately represents an object. (also
models)
• Scale: gives the ratio of the dimensions in the
drawing to the dimensions of the object.
• Reduction: when a scale model or drawing is
smaller than the actual object.
• Enlargement: when a scale model or drawing
is larger than the actual object.
 How to read scales
• The scale a:b is read “a to b”.
• For example, the scale 1 cm: 3 ft is
read “one centimeter to three feet”.
SCALE INTERPRETATION
1:20 1 unit on the drawing is
20 units

1 cm: 1 m 1 cm on the drawing is 1

m
¼ in. = 1 ft ¼ in. on the drawing is 1
ft
 Use proportions to find
unknown scales or lengths
• The length of an object on a scale drawing
is 5 cm, and its actual length is 15 m. The
scale is 1 cm: _?_ m. What is the scale?
• Set up a proportion using
• find the cross products

• x=3
 Use proportions to find
unknown scales or lengths
• The length of an object on a scale
drawing is 3.5 in. The scale is 1 in: 12 ft.
What is the actual length of the object?
• Set up proportion using
• find your cross products

• x = 42 feet
 Life Science
• Under a 1000:1 microscope view, a
paramecium appears to have a length
of 39 mm. What is its actual length?

• x = 0.0039 mm
 Scales
• A drawing that uses the scale ¼ in. =
1ft is said to be in ¼ in. scale.
• Similarly, a drawing that uses the
scale ½ in. = 1 ft, is in ½ in scale.
 Using scales and scale
drawings to find heights
• If a wall in a ¼ in scale drawing is 3
in. tall, how tall is the actual wall?

• Cross multiply and solve

• x = 12, the wall is 12 ft tall.

 Using scales and scale
drawings to find heights
• How tall is the wall if a ½ in scale is
used?

• Cross multiply and solve

• x = 6, the wall is 6 ft tall.