Question

Diego made a scale drawing of a community college. A building at the college, which is 35 meters wide in real life, is 7 centimeters wide in the drawing. What scale did Diego use?

Answer 1

If the 7 centimeters is converted into 35 meters. Then the scale factor of the drawing is 0.2 centimeters per meter.

What is the scale factor?

The scale factor means the changing of the size of the object without changing the shape. The size of the object may be increased or decreased based on the scale factor.

Diego made a scale drawing of a community college.

A building at the college, which is 35 meters wide in real life, is 7 centimeters wide in the drawing.

Then the scale factor will be given as

$\begin{aligned} 35 \rm \ m &= 7\rm \ cm\\\\1 \ \rm m &= \dfrac{7}{35} \rm \ cm\\\\1 \rm \ m &= 0.2 \rm cm \end{aligned}$

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