Question

Troy is building a pool that is proprtional to an olympic-sized pool the width of his pool will be 625 centimeters find the scale factor.

Answer 1

You will have to tell me the length and width of that big pool.

Answer 2

once you have the dimensions of the other pool set up the equation like this

big pool width/big pool length=625/x
for example purposes let the above equal this
w/l=625/x
to solve
l(625)=w(x)

l(625)/w=x