Question

A rectangular garden has dimensions of 100 feet by 10 feet. Next season, the garden is decreased to 2/5
of its size. What is the scale of the drawing for the new garden shown below?
A rectangle that is 8 inches long and four-fifths of an inch wide.

Answer 1

New garden = (2/5)(100 ft by 10 ft) = 40 ft by 4 ft.

Drawing is 8 in by 4/5 in, so compare one dimension:
8 in represents 40 ft → 1 in represents 5 ft.

Thus the scale is 1 in : 5 ft (equivalently 1:60 if both units in inches).