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A scale drawing has a scale of 5mm : 1cm. What is the scale factor?
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A scale drawing has a scale of 5mm : 1cm. What is the scale factor?

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First, one must note that there are 10 mm in each cm. Filling that in for one centimeter, and then taking away the mm sign because it is common, that makes the equation become 5:10 which is equal to 1:2. 
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