You have been asked to build a scale model of your school out of toothpicks. Imagine your school is 30 feet tall. Your scale is 1 ft:1.68 cm.
If a toothpick is 6.3 cm tall, how many toothpicks tall will your model be?
The model will be 8
toothpicks tall.
Your mother is out of toothpicks, and suggests you use cotton swabs instead. You measure them, and
they are 7.5 cm tall. How many cotton swabs tall will your model be? If necessary, round your answer to
the nearest whole number.
The model will be approximately
cotton swabs tall.