I have a drawing that is $7.2$ cm tall. The original drawing used a scale of $1$ cm: $13$ inches. According to that scale the object would be $7$ ft. $8$ in. tall in real life. How do I figure out what scale to use to make it $5$ feet tall?
2026-04-03 01:31:45.1775179905
Scaling an object up and down
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It is unclear from the question what is to be altered. Here are a couple of alternatives:-
Keep the scale the same and redraw the object. Then you would need a height of $\frac{60}{13}=4.6$ cm.
Keep the drawing the same and state a new scale. Then a drawing of 7.2 cm would represent 60 inches and so the scale would be 1 cm :8.33 inches.