a rectangle has an area of 20 square feet. A similar rectangle has an area of 180 sq feet. What is the ratio of the area of these similar rectangles?
Is it 9 or maybe 3000??? Not sure. Please help....
3000 ???
Are you just guessing wildly ???
what is 180 : 20 ?
It asked for the ratio
which cannot just be one number.
Ratios express the relationship between 2 or more items
so 180:20
= 9 : 1
To find the ratio of the areas of these two rectangles, we need to divide the area of the larger rectangle by the area of the smaller rectangle.
Let's label the area of the smaller rectangle as A1 (20 square feet) and the area of the larger rectangle as A2 (180 square feet).
The ratio is given by A2/A1.
So, the ratio is 180/20 = 9.
Therefore, the ratio of the areas of these similar rectangles is 9.