Question

A town's chamber of commerce printed a map of the buisiness district. The map is 12 inches square, and 1 inch on the map represents an actual distance of 300 feet. A larger version of the same map of the business district is printed with the side length of %50 longer than the side length of the previous map. On the larger map, what is the actual distance ,in feet, represented by 1 inch?

Answer 1

Answer:

450 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the map was increased by a percentage and that percentage is given we can simply multiply the added percentage to the value of feet per inch in order to get the new amount of feet that every inch represents. Like so ...

300ft * 1.50 = 450ft

Therefore, by multiplying 300 * 1.50 (which is 50% more of the original size) we get 450ft. This means that every inch in the larger map represents a total distance of 450 feet in actual distance.