Kevin drew a scale drawing of a house. the garage, which is 3 meters wide in real life, is 6 centimeters wide in the drawing. What is the drawing's scale factor ?

1 Answer
Nov 23, 2016

The drawing's scale factor is #1:50#

Explanation:

In drawing, width of the garage is #6# #cm#

and in actual width of the garage is #3# #m# or #3xx100=300# #cm.#

Hence, the drawing's scale factor is #6:300# and dividing by #6#, it is #1:50#