Question

Lenore built another model of one of the floor plans of the new building. In the actual building, a hallway will be 8 m long. In lenore's model, the hallway is 40 cm long. What scale did lenore use

Answer 1

1 : 5

Explanation:

A scale drawing is a reduced form in terms of dimensions of an original image / building / object

the scale drawing is usually reduced at a constant dimension

scale of the drawing = original dimensions / dimensions of the scale drawing

40 / 8 = 1m : 5cm