The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 49 square centimeters, and the scale drawing is 1 centimeter:2 ft. What is the area of the actual floor? What is the ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area?
f the scale is 1cm : 2ft
then the area scales as 1cm^2 : 4ft^2
so the floor has area 49 * 4 = ____ ft^2