Victor measured a city park and made a scale drawing. The soccer field is 23 millimeters long in the drawing. The actual field is 115 meters long. What is the scale of the drawing?
1 millimeter : meters
To find the scale of the drawing, we divide the length of the actual field (115 meters) by the length of the field in the drawing (23 millimeters). We get:
scale = 115 meters / 23 millimeters = 5 meters/ millimeter
So, the scale of the drawing is 1 millimeter : 5 meters.