The Empire State Building is 1454 ft tall and 424 feet long. You want to make a scale drawing of the building on an 8 ½ by 11 in. sheet of paper, and you decide to use the scale 1 in = 100 ft. Is this a reasonable scale? Explain..
For this case, the first thing we must do is use the given scale to find the new dimensions of the Empire State. We have then: 1454/100 = 14.54 in 424/100 = 4.24 in we observed that: 14.54> 11 Therefore, the scale is not reasonable because the drawing does not fit on the paper completely. Answer: this is not a reasonable scale
