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Malia made a scale drawing of an apartment. The dining room is 3 centimeters long in the drawing. The actual dining room is 6 meters long. What scale factor does the drawing use?

Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction




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 3cm    xcm
____=____
 6m     1m

Cross multiply
6x=3
divide both sides by 6
x=3/6
x=1/2 or 0.5


S0 1m in the original is equal to 0.5cm in the drawing.

0.5cm=0.005m

1m*0.005m=200

The drawing uses a scale factor of 1/200 or 0.005