Stanley measured a county park and made a scale drawing. The picnic area, which is 120 yards long in real life, is 270 inches long in the drawing. What scale did Stanley use?
9 inches:___ yards
To find the scale, we need to determine how many inches represent one yard in the drawing.
First, let's convert 120 yards to inches:
120 yards * 36 inches/yard = 4320 inches
Now we can calculate the scale:
270 inches in the drawing / 4320 inches in real life = 1/16
Therefore, the scale Stanley used is 9 inches: 1/16 yards.