Question

Lola drew a scale drawing of a city park. The soccer field is 232 millimeters long in the drawing. The actual field is 116 meters long. What is the scale of the drawing?
2 millimeters:___ meters

Answer 1

To find the scale of the drawing, we need to determine the ratio between the length in the drawing and the actual length.

The ratio is 232 millimeters / 116 meters.

Since there are 1000 millimeters in 1 meter, we need to convert the 116 meters into millimeters.

116 meters * 1000 millimeters = 116,000 millimeters.

Now we can calculate the scale:

232 millimeters / 116,000 millimeters = 1/500.

Therefore, the scale of the drawing is 2 millimeters: 1 meter or 1/500.