On Elvis’s map, the area of a park is of thearea of the same park on Belinda’s map. Elvis’s map uses a 1/4 scale of 1 inch to 100 feet. What scale does Belinda’s map use?

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Using proportions, it is found that Belinda's map uses a scale of 0.025 inches : 100 feet = 0.00025 inches : 1 feet.

What is a proportion?

A proportion is a fraction of a total amount, and the measures can be related using a rule of three, which derives from proportional relationships.

Due to this, relations between variables, either direct(when both increase or both decrease) or inverse proportional(when one increases and the other decreases, or vice versa), can be built to find the desired measures in the problem, or equations to find these measures, involving operations such as division and multiplication, as they involve unit rates.

Scale problems are solved using proportions. Elvis’s map uses a 1/4 scale of 1 inch to 100 feet, hence:

  • 1 inch represents 100 feet in the entire scale.
  • 1/4 of that is that 1/4 = 0.25 inches represent 100 feet.

Belinda's map has the same area, hence they use the same scale, hence she uses a scale of 0.025 inches : 100 feet = 0.00025 inches : 1 feet.

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