Architectural Designs

can you please help with this math problem about architecture?

an architect is designing an office building that is to be a width of 50 feet, a length of 50 feet and a height of 100 feet. a scale model of the same building is to have a width of 18 inches a length of 18 inches and a height of 36 inches .. 1. the entrance into the office building is 8 feet high by 7 feet wide find the height and the width of the entrance on the scale model. round your answer to one decimal place.. 2. two windows on either side of the main entrance measure 3 inches wide and 2 inches high on the scale model. find the height and the width on the actual building. round your answer to one decimal place.. 3. you want to add a window over the entrance to the building.. determine the size that you want the actual window to be.. then find the size of the window on the scale scale model.. i'm confused and i dont know how to solve these last three problems ..

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1. You are doing a scale model. 100 feet in the building is represented by 36 inches. This is scale of 36:1200 (1200 inches = 100feet) or 3:100 So push everything through that conversion. So the entrance is 8' high. That's 96 inches, so it's 96 * (3/100) inches high in the scale model.