A museum has a wax sculpture of a historical village. The scale is 1.5 : 8. If the height of a hut in the sculpture is 5 feet how tall is the original hut to the nearest whole foot?

The scale of the sculpture to the original village is 1.5 : 8 We can calculate 8 / 1.5 which equals 5.333 The original structures in the village are 5.333 times the size of the items in the sculpture. If the hut in the sculpture has a height of 5 feet, then we need to multiply this by 5.333. original hut height = (5 feet) (5.333) original hut height = 27 feet The original hut has a height of 27 feet.