Graphing & Scales Help: Applying 1:300 & 1:20 Scales

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Homework Statement


Just looking for some advice!
I have numbers that range from 200 - 300 for the Y axis
and I got some numbers that range from 0 - 17 for the X axis.

(what the numbers basically mean is 200-300 are the elevations for each station of 0-17 on the X axis.

I've been asked to use 1:300 scale for the Horizontal Axis and 1:20 scale for the vertical axis.

I'm totally lost. What I've been trying to figure out is, how the scales are applied. I have a 17x22 Inch vellum piece of paper. All help would be greatly appreciated!

Homework Equations


Horizontal scale 1:300
Vertical Scale 1:20

The Attempt at a Solution


this is from one of my college courses, but there wasn't really any examples given to us. It feels very straight foward but the scales didn't make sense to me. If anyone could, please, just reply with a brief example or solution, and I will try to work it out. Thanks so much in advance!
 
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the attempt I took so far, as of now is 3.33cm = 1 for the bottom scale... 17 times...

more info, people have also said that there is barely enough room for the graph. and I would assume this would be fine since there is also barely enough room for the graph. I am about to do the vertical scale. Likely going to mess it up. but all help is still welcome.. :( thanks
 
ah nvm. I've figured it out. Thanks for your time and views :)