original word problem is Cate drew an image of an animal she wants to create. She said that it would obviously be bigger than the drawing because she used a scale of 1cm : 13 inches. The drawing is 7.2 cm tall. Based upon Cate's drawing how tall would this animal be in real life? I came up with an answer of 7 ft. 8 inches which is correct. Now the next question i'm stumped on......Libby suggested they try to make the new animal exactly 5 feet tall. What scale should they use to go with Libby's idea? I came up with 1cm : 8.33 inches but the teacher said my answer can't have a repeating number has a measure and to use cm:ft instead of cm:in. I can not come up with anything that makes the bit of sense. Please help.
