Pedro measured a swimming pool and made a scale drawing. The pool, which is 42 meters long in real life, is 119 centimeters long in the drawing. What scale did Pedro use for the drawing?

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Answer:

The scale that Pedro used for the drawing is: 17:600.

Step-by-step explanation:

A scale of a drawing is expressed as: Drawing length:actual length.

Since you know that the pool is 119 centimeters long in the drawing and 42 meters long in real life, first you have to find  the cm in 42 meter taking into account that 1 meter is equal to 100 cm:

1 m     →    100 cm

42 m   →          x

x=(42*100)/1

x=4200 cm

Now, the scale would be:

119:4200

Finally, you need to simplify and you can do it by dividing each number by 7:

17:600

According to this, the answer is that the scale that Pedro used for the drawing is: 17:600.