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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 ?

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Shwetank Mauria

Nov 23, 2016

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

Explanation:

In drawing, width of the garage is $6$ $6$ $c m$ $cm$

and in actual width of the garage is $3$ $3$ $m$ $m$ or $3 \times 100 = 300$ $3xx100=300$ $c m .$ $cm.$

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

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