Question

A volleyball court is in a rectangular shape and its dimensions are directly proportional to the dimensions of the swimming pool given below. Find the width of the pool.

Answer 1

From the given figures,

Length of volleyball court = 18m

Breadth of volleyball court = 9m

Length of pool = 75m

Let the width of swimming pool = x m

According to the question, the size of volleyball court and swimming pool are in direct proportion to each other.

Hence, the width of the swimming pool is 37.5 m