Question

Brennan measured a boarding school and made a scale drawing. A building at the school is 21 centimeters long in the drawing. The actual building is 147 meters long. What is the scale of the drawing?

Answer 1

1 cm:7 meters

Explanation:

The scale drawing shows the length in the drawing, then a colon and the actual lenght of the object. The actual building is 147 meters long and the drawing is 21 centimeters long. From this, we have:

21 cm:147 meters

As both numbers can be divided by 21, you can simplify and you would have that the scale of the drawing is:

1 cm:7 meters

Answer 2

Check the explanation

Explanation:

1 centimetre is = 0.01 meter

therefore the scale in Brennan drawing is 1 centimetre is used to represent 7 metres