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Oscar measured an Italian restaurant and made a scale drawing. The scale he used was 1 millimeter = 1 meter. What scale factor does the drawing use?Simplify your answer and write it as a ratio, using a colon.

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1:1000

Step-by-step explanation

1000 millimeters is equivalent to 1 meter. The scale factor is,


\frac{1\operatorname{mm}}{1m}\cdot\frac{1m}{1000\operatorname{mm}}=(1)/(1000)

As a ratio, this is 1:1000

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