Grade 8 Scale Drawing Worksheet
This worksheet focuses on understanding and applying scale factors in scale drawings, including calculating actual dimensions and drawing scaled figures.
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Scale Drawing Practice
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show all your work for full credit.
1. A map has a scale of 1 inch = 50 miles. If two cities are 3.5 inches apart on the map, what is the actual distance between them?
2. A scale drawing of a rectangular park has dimensions 10 cm by 8 cm. If the scale is 1 cm = 20 meters, the actual length of the park is and the actual width is .
3. If a scale drawing uses a scale of 1:100, what does this mean?
1 unit on the drawing represents 100 units in real life.
100 units on the drawing represent 1 unit in real life.
The drawing is 100 times larger than the actual object.
The drawing is 100 times smaller than the actual object.
4. A rectangular garden is 12 meters long and 8 meters wide. Draw a scale drawing of the garden using a scale of 1 cm = 2 meters.
5. A scale factor greater than 1 means the scale drawing is an enlargement of the actual object.
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6. An architect's blueprint for a house shows a living room that is 5 inches long. If the actual living room is 20 feet long, what is the scale of the blueprint in inches to feet?
7. Use the ruler below to measure the length of the line segment. Then, if the line segment represents an actual object that is 10 cm long, what is the scale of the drawing?
