Question

Myra made a scale drawing of an office building. In real life, a desk is 6 feet long. It is 10 inches long in the drawer. What is the scale of the drawing

Answer 1

1in : 0.6ft

Explanation:

Since the desk is 10 inches in the drawing but 6 feet long in real life then the scale would be 10in : 6ft. This would be the scale of the drawing but we need to simplify it to its most simplest form. We do this by dividing both sides of the scale by 10 so that the left side is equal to 1.

10 / 10 = 1 inch

6 / 10 = 0.6 ft

1in : 0.6ft

Finally, we can see that the scale of the drawing is 1in : 0.6ft