SOLUTION: Tanner measured a house and made a scale drawing. In real life, the garage is 4 meters wide. It is 1 centimeter wide in the drawing. What scale factor does the drawing use?
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Question 1132743: Tanner measured a house and made a scale drawing. In real life, the garage is 4 meters wide. It is 1 centimeter wide in the drawing. What scale factor does the drawing use?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4 meters is 400 cm; 1cm on the drawing is 400cm on the house; the scale is 1:400.
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