Question

You are designing a room for a house and are drawing a floor plan. The room is actually 18 feet wide. On your floor plan, you draw the room as 6 inches wide. What is the scale factor (scale) for the floor plan?

Answer 1

on a scale drawing 1/2 in.=1 ft. a room is pictured as 8in. by 6.5 inches. What are the actual dimensions in feet? 

Answer 2

X is the Scale factor so 18/6=X X=3 Another way to check. the work is 6 x 3 = 18 Hope this Helped. :)