Colette made a scale drawing of the elementary school. The scale of the drawing was 1 millimeter : 5 meters. The schoolyard is 34 millimeters long in the drawing. How long is the actual schoolyard?
meters
To find the actual length of the schoolyard, we need to multiply the length of the drawing by the scale factor.
Scale factor = 5 meters / 1 millimeter = 5
Actual length of the schoolyard = 34 millimeters * 5 meters/millimeter = 170 meters
Therefore, the actual length of the schoolyard is 170 meters.