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You are designing a room for a house and are drawing a floor plan. The room is actually 18 feet wide. On your floor plan, you draw the room as 6 inches wide. What is the scale factor (scale) for the floor plan?

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on a scale drawing 1/2 in.=1 ft. a room is pictured as 8in. by 6.5 inches. What are the actual dimensions in feet?
User Brian Schermerhorn
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X is the Scale factor so 18/6=X X=3 Another way to check. the work is 6 x 3 = 18 Hope this Helped. :)
User Alexey Savchuk
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