The image shows a table at a restaurant in the shape of a trapezoid. 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.
The bottom of the trapezoid is 6ft and the top of the trapezoid it 3 ft and the left side of the trapezoid is 3ft and the right side of the trapezoid is 3ft
If the greatest length of the table is represented by 1.5 feet in the scale drawing, then the length of the other sides of the table can be calculated using the scale.
The bottom of the trapezoid is 6ft in real life, so in the scale drawing it would be 1.5ft. Therefore, each foot in the scale drawing represents 6/1.5 = 4 feet in real life.
So, the top of the trapezoid would be 3ft * 4 = 12ft in real life.
The left side of the trapezoid would be 3ft * 4 = 12ft in real life.
The right side of the trapezoid would be 3ft * 4 = 12ft in real life.
Therefore, the length of the other sides of the table in real life would be:
12 feet for the top,
12 feet for the left side,
12 feet for the right side.
In decimal form, this would be:
12.0 feet for the top,
12.0 feet for the left side,
12.0 feet for the right side.