Dalton made a scale drawing of a swimming pool. The scale he used was 1 millimeter : 5 meters. The actual width of the pool is 25 meters. How wide is the pool in the drawing?
millimeters
To find the width of the pool in the drawing, we can set up a proportion.
Let's say x millimeters is the width of the pool in the drawing.
Using the scale 1 millimeter : 5 meters, we can set up the proportion:
1 millimeter / 5 meters = x millimeters / 25 meters
Cross multiplying, we get:
5 meters * x millimeters = 1 millimeter * 25 meters
5x = 25
Dividing both sides by 5, we get:
x = 5
Therefore, the width of the pool in the drawing is 5 millimeters.