Ayana made a scale drawing of a house and its lot. The porch, which is 12 feet wide in real life, is 2 inches wide in the drawing. What scale did Ayana use for the drawing?
To find the scale, we need to calculate the ratio between the actual width of the porch and its width in the drawing.
The actual width of the porch is 12 feet.
The width of the porch in the drawing is 2 inches.
To convert feet to inches, we multiply the actual width of the porch by 12: 12 feet * 12 inches/foot = 144 inches.
Now we can calculate the scale of the drawing by dividing the actual width by the width in the drawing: 144 inches / 2 inches = <<144/2=72>>72.
Therefore, Ayana used a scale of 1 inch: 72 inches or simply 1:72.