You are working on a blueprint for a new office building. The actual dimensions of the office space are 40 meters in width and 60 meters in length. You decide to create a scale drawing with a scale factor of 1:8. If the width of your scale drawing represents the actual width of the office space, what is the length of your scale drawing
To find the length of the scale drawing, we need to determine the length ratio between the actual dimensions and the scale drawing using the scale factor of 1:8.
The ratio of the actual length to the length of the scale drawing is given by:
Actual length / Length of scale drawing = Scale factor
Let L represent the length of the scale drawing.
From the information given, we have:
60 meters / L = 1/8
Now we can solve for L:
60L = 8
L = 8/60
L = 0.133333333
Therefore, the length of the scale drawing is approximately 0.133 meters.