A board game uses a triangular piece measuring 3 inches on each side. The travel version of the game uses a smaller piece of of 0.5 on each side. Identify the scale factor used to make the travel piece.

Answer 1

The scale factor used to make the travel piece can be determined by dividing the length of the smaller piece by the length of the original piece.

For the travel version, the length of each side of the smaller piece is 0.5 inches.
For the original version, the length of each side of the triangular piece is 3 inches.

Therefore, the scale factor used to make the travel piece is:
0.5 inches ÷ 3 inches = 0.1667 (rounded to four decimal places)