+4 You are making a scale model of a rectangular park for a school project. Your model has a length of 2 feet and a width of 1.4 feet. The actual park is 800 yards long. What is the perimeter and area of the actual park?
+130516 Comparing the length of the model with the actual length, the scale must be : 2 ft = 800 meters
So.....the actual width can be foung thusly :
800/2 = width/ 1.4 multiply both sides by 1.4
[800] * [1.4] / [2] = width = 560 meters
And the area is length * width.......so the area =
800m * 560m = 448,000 square meters
And the perimeter =
2 [width + length ] =
2 [ 560 + 800] = 2720 meters
