Colette made a scale drawing of the elementary school. The scale of the drawing was 1 millimeter : 5 meters. The schoolyard is 34 millimeters long in the drawing. How long is the actual schoolyard?

Question

meters

Answer 1

To find the actual length of the schoolyard, we need to multiply the length of the drawing by the scale factor.

Scale factor = 5 meters / 1 millimeter = 5

Actual length of the schoolyard = 34 millimeters * 5 meters/millimeter = 170 meters

Therefore, the actual length of the schoolyard is 170 meters.