The Community Recreation Center is developing plans for a new sports facility. Community members can submit suggestions for the new facility, along with basic scale drawings of their ideas. Elena wants to include a new 15- by 30-meter basketball court in the athletic center. She is submitting a scale drawing on an 8.5- by 11-inch sheet of paper. Which scale should Elena use to create as large a drawing as possible on the paper?
1/2 in = 1m
or 5/16 = 1m
or 1/4= 1m
or 3/8= 1m

Question

The Community Recreation Center is developing plans for a new sports facility. Community members can submit suggestions for the new facility, along with basic scale drawings of their ideas. Elena wants to include a new 15- by 30-meter basketball court in the athletic center. She is submitting a scale drawing on an 8.5- by 11-inch sheet of paper. Which scale should Elena use to create as large a drawing as possible on the paper?
 1/2 in = 1m
 or 5/16 = 1m 
or 1/4= 1m 
or 3/8= 1m