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Valeria made a scale drawing of an apartment. The dining room is 14 centimeters wide in thedrawing. The actual dining room is 7 meters wide. What scale did Valeria use for thedrawing?2 centimeters:meters

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SOLUTION

Now the actual dinning room is 7meters.

7 meters to centimeters becomes


7*100=700\operatorname{cm}

Valeria drawing of the dinning room was 14 cm

To get the scale, we do this


\begin{gathered} (700)/(14)=50 \\ So\text{ the scale is } \\ 1\operatorname{cm}\colon50\operatorname{cm} \end{gathered}

So, that means for 2cm, the scale becomes


\begin{gathered} 1*2\colon50*2 \\ 2cm\colon100\operatorname{cm} \end{gathered}

100 cm = 1 meter.

Therefore, the required scale becomes

2 centimeters : 1meter

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