Lisa drew a picture of a boat. she used the scale 1 inch: 6.5 feet the boat in her picture is 7: 25 inches long. what is the length, in feet of the actual boat?

Okay. So, using the scale, we can solve for the length of the actual boat by writing and solving a proportion. Let’s write it out like this: 1/6.5 = 7.5/x. This is because you’re looking for the real length of the boat, so the x would be lined up horizontally with 6.5, as shown in the proportion. Let’s cross multiply. 6.5 * 7.5 is 48.75. 1 * x is 1x. 48.75 = 1x. Now, let’s divide each side by 1 to isolate the “x”. When you do that, you get x = 48.75. There. The length of the actual boat is 48.75 feet.