Question

Aaliyah drew a scale drawing of a house and its lot. The scale of the drawing was1 centimeter: 8 meters. If the actual length of the lawn in the backyard is 56 meters, howlong is the lawn in the drawing?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

7 cm

STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:

We have that the scale of the drawing is as follows:

1 centimeter: 8 meters

Therefore, we can calculate the length of the lawn in the drawing as follows:

$56\text{ m}\times\frac{1\text{ cm}}{8\text{ m}}=7\text{ cm}$

So the drawing, the length is 7cm