Question

Stanley drew a scale drawing of a farm. The scale of the drawing was 1 millimeter : 7 meters. In the drawing, the goat pen is 2 millimeters long. What is the length of the actual pen?

Answer 1

The length of the actual pen=14 meters.

Explanation:

Given The scale of the drawing was 1 millimetre : 7 metres. It means that for every millimetre of the drawing the actual length is 7 metres.

let the actual length of the goat pen be x

`1 mm--->7m`

`2mm--->xm`

on cross multiplication we get

`x*1=7*2`

`x=14`