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A scale drawing of an object is the same...

A scale drawing of an object is the same shape at the object but a different size. The scale of a drawing is a comparison of the length used on a drawing to the length it represents. The scale is written as a ratio. The ratio of two corresponding sides in similar figures is called the scale factor.
Scale factor= length in image / corresponding length in object.
If one shape can become another using revising, then the shapes are similar. Hence, two shapes are similar when one can become the other after a resize, flip, slide or turn. In the photograph below showing the side view of a train engine. Scale factor is 1:200.

This means that a length of 1 cm on the photograph above corresponds to a length of 200cm or 2 m, of the actual engine. The scale can also be written as the ratio of two lengths.
If two similar triangles have a scale factor 5:3 which statement regarding the two triangles is true?

A

24 m

B

3 m

C

6 m

D

10 m

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