spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where her lives. the rectangle is labeled in inches. Spencer decides he wants to make a smaller scale drawing of the rectangle in which the width is just 1.5 inches long. what will be the length of spencer's new scale drawing? write your answer in decimal form.
the length of the rectangle is 20 inches and the width of the rectangle is 12 inches
If the width of the original rectangle is 12 inches, and the width of the new scale drawing is 1.5 inches, then the scale factor is 12/1.5 = 8.
Therefore, the length of Spencer's new scale drawing will be 20/8 = 2.5 inches.