Use the table to answer the question.
Original Poster Scale Drawing
left edge (in.) 36 ?
top edge (in.) 24 8
A local food organization puts out a healthy foods poster. The poster is in the shape of a rectangle, and its dimensions are given in the table. Alfredo wants to make a smaller version of the poster to hang up in the community center. He makes a scale drawing of the poster with the length of the top edge given in the table. What is the area of Alfredo’s scale drawing?
(1 point)
Responses
13 square meters
Start Fraction 1 over 3 end fraction square meters
96 square inches
96 square inches
12 square inches
12 square inches
192 square inches
The scale of the drawing is 8 inches for the top edge. Since the original poster has a top edge of 24 inches, the scale is 8/24 = 1/3.
The area of the original poster is 36 inches * 24 inches = 864 square inches.
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 1/3 * 864 square inches = 288 square inches.
So, the answer is 192 square inches.