Melissa drew a scale drawing of a city. A neighborhood park is 36 inches wide in the drawing. The actual park is 60 yards wide. What is the scale of the drawing?
3 inches : yards
We can set up a proportion to find the scale of the drawing:
3 inches / 1 yard = 36 inches / 60 yards
Cross-multiplying, we get:
3 inches * 60 yards = 36 inches * 1 yard
180 inches * yards = 36 inches * yards
Simplifying, we find:
180 inches = 36 inches * yards
Dividing both sides by 36 inches, we have:
5 = yards
Therefore, the scale of the drawing is 3 inches : 1 yard.