Scale Questions and stuff

Question

i need help with this problem  a neighborhood park is 196 yards long. It is 147 inches long in the drawing. What is the scale of the drawing?

Answer 1

Since there are 36 inches in a yard, you must multiply 36x192 to get 6912 inches. Then it’s a simple proportion to calculate the scale:

6912 = 1

142 X

x = 0.021267361

0.021267361 * 100 to get a percent

So, 2.1267361% is the scale