Homework Help: math

Posted by Gaby on Monday, December 1, 2008 at 7:28am.

In an illustartion of a honeybee, the length of the bee is 4.8 centimeters. The actual size of the honeybee is 1.2 centimeters. What is the scale of the drawing?

math - Writeacher, Monday, December 1, 2008 at 8:08am
Isn't it 4:1?

If you multiply 1.2 by 4, you get 4.8, right?

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