The image shows a table at a restaurant in the shape of a trapezoid. The restaurant owners want to determine if trapezoidal tables will fit comfortably into the rest of the dining room. The owners make a scale drawing of the dining room and a scale drawing of the table. If the greatest length of the table is represented in the scale drawing by 1.5 feet, what will the length of the other sides of the table be? Write your answer in decimal form.(1 point) feet
Since the greatest length of the table is represented by 1.5 feet in the scale drawing, we can set up a proportion to find the lengths of the other sides of the table.
Let x be the length of the shorter parallel side of the trapezoid table.
1.5 feet
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x feet
Now we can set up the proportion:
1.5 / x = 1.5 / 0.75
Cross multiply:
1.5 * 0.75 = x
1.125 = x
Therefore, the length of the other sides of the table will be 1.125 feet in decimal form.