Harold was looking at a scale drawing of a city park. A reflection pool 27 meters long measured 1.8 centimeters on the drawing. Which is most likely the scale used to make the drawing?

To solve the problem shown above you must keep on mind the following information given in the problem:

1. You have that A reflection pool 27 meters long measured 1.8 centimeters on the drawing. Therefore, you can calculate the scale drawing of the city park as below:

scale=1.8/27

scale=1/15

2. Therefore, as you can see, the answer is:

The scale used to make the drawing is 1:15 (This means that 1 centimeter represents 15 meters).