Question

A 10 ft fence is 8in on a scale drawing. What is the scale?

Answer 1

To find scale we have to prodive common unit, let say inches.
10 foot = 120 inch becauyse 1 foot = 12 inch so 
10foot*12=120 ich
Now we know that
8 inch in drawing is 120 in real, so the scale is 8:120 or  - its the result