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A ten foot fence is 8 inches long on a scale drawing. what is the scale

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To find scale we have to prodive common unit, let say inches.
10 foot = 120 inch becauyse 1 foot = 12 inch so 
10foot*12=120 ich
Now we know that
8 inch in drawing is 120 in real, so the scale is 8:120 or [tex] \frac{8}{120}= \frac{8:8}{120:8}= \frac{1}{15} [/tex] - its the result