A drawing that shows a real object with accurate sizes reduced or enlarged by a certain amount (called the scale). The scale is shown as the length in the drawing, then a colon (":"), then the matching length on the real thing.
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It is the factor given by:
Linear measure of the real life object/Linear measure of its image in the drawing.
The answer depends on what aspect of the scale drawing you wish to calculate.
# is the ratio of the demensions in the drawing to the corresponding actual dimensions. The scale factor for a scale drawing is the ratio of the dimensions in the drawing to the corresponding acual bimensions.
Not all drawings are done to scale, sketches of buildings and people for instance. However if it is a technical drawing the draughtsman/woman will state on the drawing the scale used.
a scale drawing.
The scale drawing in math is fun. You have to know the challenge level of the basic Mathematics.