FAN AND MEDAL
Tim has a scale model of an airplane which says it is in a 1:15 ratio. What does that mean? 1 in drawing is actually 15 in reality

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FAN AND MEDAL
Tim has a scale model of an airplane which says it is in a 1:15 ratio.  What does that mean? 1 in drawing is actually 15 in reality

anonymous · Answer

is that your answer after the question?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

yes that right because if you just make up units like 1inch to 15inch
this means 1 inch in the drawing represents 15 inches in real life

anonymous · Answer

thanks can u help with one more?

anonymous · Answer

i can try

anonymous · Answer

b.	If a scale factor is 			 than one, then the object will scale 			 to smaller dimensions

anonymous · Answer

its the oposite of the last problem, if we have a 15 to 1
that means 15inch in drawing and 1inch to real life. this means
that the first number must be ______ than 0.

anonymous · Answer

how about  the scale must be (blank) than one

anonymous · Answer

less or greater?

anonymous · Answer

less

anonymous · Answer

because its says smaller

anonymous · Answer

yes because we want to scale it down