Melissa drew a scale drawing of a city. A neighborhood park is 36 inches wide in the drawing. The actual park is 60 yards wide. What is the scale of the drawing?

Question

3 inches : yards

Answer 1

We can set up a proportion to find the scale of the drawing:

3 inches / 1 yard = 36 inches / 60 yards

Cross-multiplying, we get:

3 inches * 60 yards = 36 inches * 1 yard

180 inches * yards = 36 inches * yards

Simplifying, we find:

180 inches = 36 inches * yards

Dividing both sides by 36 inches, we have:

5 = yards

Therefore, the scale of the drawing is 3 inches : 1 yard.