Question

Victor measured a city park and made a scale drawing. The soccer field is 23 millimeters long in the drawing. The actual field is 115 meters long. What is the scale of the drawing? 1 millimeter : ___ meters

Answer 1

We need to find the scale factor, which is given as

$\text{factor}=\frac{115\text{ meters}}{\text{23 millimeters}}=5$

then, this means that 1 millimeter : 5 meters