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
192 square inches
192 square inches
12 square inches
12 square inches
96 square inches
96 square inches
13 square meters
The scale of the drawing is 1 inch on the scale drawing represents 3 inches on the original poster.
Since the top edge of the scale drawing is 8 inches, this would mean the actual top edge of the original poster is 8 x 3 = 24 inches.
The scale length of the left edge of the poster would be 36/3 = 12 inches.
Therefore, the scale drawing of Alfredo's poster has dimensions of 12 inches by 8 inches.
The area of the scale drawing would be 12 x 8 = 96 square inches.
Therefore, the correct answer is 96 square inches.