How are scale drawings used in everyday life?

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Scale drawings are used by artists, architects and builders to get an accurate drawing either smaller or larger than the actual thing is.

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pretty much any product you see now days were made by scale drawings

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The distance between two lakes is 300 miles. On a map, the measured distance between the lakes is three-fourths of an inch. What is the scale of the map?

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The scale gives the relationship between the measurements of the drawing or model and the measurements of the real object.

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The Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt is a statue with the head of a man and the body of a lion. The height of the statue is 20 meters. On a scale model, the height is 5 centimeters

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5 cm = 0.05 m. 
(20 m) / (0.05 m) = 400, so the scale factor is 1:400.

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In an illustration of a honeybee, the length of the bee is 4.8 centimeters.  The actual size of the honeybee is 1.2 centimeters.  What is the scale of the drawing?

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