VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS AND COMMUNICATION

Special Effects
Technician

Math
Skill Check

You have been asked to work on a new feature film that includes a volcano eruption. As the special effects technician, you must create a scale version of the mountain and a town at the foot of the mountains.

The real mountain that the film director is using for scenery shots is 8,000 feet tall and 12,000 feet wide at the base. The producer wants your model of the mountain to be 8 feet high. What scale will you use? How wide will the model mountain be at the base?

Scale:
Model width:

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