The Engineer's Scale

[@moniemoon3193]

Thank you soooo much for explaining this!! Very interesting, clear and precise. Appreciate youuuu!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@KarenPortillo-w3u]

I love you. Thank you.

[@nedam470]

for 1"=3' you used the ruler scale of 1"=30' why your multiplier was 1? shouldn't it be 0.1?

[@shmoggy417]

In her case, she is counting the large numbers increments on the scale. So the scale given is divided by the side of the engineering scale used, so 3/30 = .1. But this is then multipled by 10 because of the increments which equals a multipier of 1. In the case of 1" = 500'. The multiplier is the scale given (500) divided by the side used(50), so 500/50 = 10, but then 10 x 10 increments = 100 for the multiplier.