Angie made a scale drawing of the town library. The parking lot is 348 centimeters long in the drawing. The actual parking lot is 120 meters long. What scale did Angie use for the drawing?
29 centimeters : meters
To find the scale, we need to compare the length of the drawing to the actual length.
Since Angie made a scale drawing where the parking lot is 348 centimeters long in the drawing, and the actual parking lot is 120 meters long, we can set up the proportion:
348 centimeters / 120 meters = x centimeters / 1 meter
To find the value of x, we can cross multiply:
120 * x = 348 * 1
120x = 348
Dividing both sides of the equation by 120, we get:
x = 348 / 120
x = 2.9
Therefore, Angie used a scale of 2.9 centimeters : 1 meter for the drawing of the town library.