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.
If the greatest length of the table in the scale drawing is 1.5 feet, this means that the actual length of the table is 1.5 x 1 = 1.5 feet.
Since a trapezoidal table typically has two parallel sides of equal length, we can determine that the length of the other sides of the table are also 1.5 feet.
Therefore, the length of the other sides of the table will be 1.5 feet, which is equivalent to 1.5 feet in decimal form.