Question

The orange figure below is a scale drawing of theblack figure. What is the scale factor, rounded tothe nearest whole number?

Answer 1

Scale factor is given by the formula below:

`\text{Scale factor =}\frac{new\text{ length}}{\text{old length}}`

Using the right-hand side

new length = 1

old length= 3

substitute the values into the formular

`\text{scale factors= }(1)/(3)=0.33333\approx0`