Spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where he 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 one.5 inches long. What will the length of the rectangle in Spencer’s new, scale, drawing right your answer in decimal form
Side 1: 20inch
Side 2 12inch
To find the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new, scaled drawing, we can use the ratio of the original length to the original width.
Original length: 20 inches
Original width: 12 inches
Original length to width ratio: 20/12 = 1.6667
Since the width in the scaled drawing is 1.5 inches, we can set up the following proportion:
1.5 inches = x inches (new length)
1 (original width) = 12 (original length)
1.5/1 = x/12
1.5 = 12x
x = 1.5/12
x = 0.125
Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new, scaled drawing is 0.125 inches.