A drawing<span> that shows a real object with accurate sizes reduced or enlarged by a certain amount (called the </span>scale<span>). The </span>scale<span> is shown as the length in the</span>drawing<span>, then a colon (":"), then the matching length on the real thing.</span>
I would say about 4 socks. because if you have 24 of each color sock then you would pull out 1 sock then you have 3 more trys to get the same colored sock.