The height of a triangle is 5 inches . The base is 8 inches . Crystal makes a scale drawing of the triangle of 2 inches what is the area of her scale drawing?
The scale factor used to create the scale drawing is 2:1. This means that every measurement in the original triangle is multiplied by 2 to get the corresponding measurement in the scale drawing.
The height of the scale drawing is 5 inches * 2 = 10 inches.
The base of the scale drawing is 8 inches * 2 = 16 inches.
To find the area of the scale drawing, we use the formula for the area of a triangle:
Area = 0.5 * base * height
Area = 0.5 * 16 * 10
Area = 80 square inches
Therefore, the area of Crystal's scale drawing of the triangle is 80 square inches.