Your model locomotive is 18 inches long. It is an exact model of a locomotive that is 72 feet long. A window on the locomotive is how many times wider than a window on the model?
\(72feet=72*12inches=864inches\)
ratio:
\(18:864\)
or:
\(1:48\)
so window is 48 times wider normaly than in this model
Answer: 4
Step-by-step explanation:
Given: The length of a model locomotive = 18 inches
The length of a exact locomotive = 72 inches
The scale factor to scale the model of the locomotive is given by the ratio of the length of the locomotive to the length of the model.
let k be the scale factor, then
\(k=\frac{72}{18}=4\)
Hence, the dimensions of the locomotive model is 4 times the dimensions of the model.
Therefore, the locomotive is 4 times wider than a window on the model.