Original Poster
Scale Drawing
left edge (in.)
36
?
top edge (in.)
8
24
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)
192 square inches
12 square inches
1/2square meters
96 square inches
First, we need to find the scale factor by dividing the length of the top edge of the original poster by the length of the top edge of Alfredo's scale drawing:
Scale factor = 24 in / 8 in = 3
Next, we calculate the length of the left edge of Alfredo's scale drawing:
Left edge of Alfredo's scale drawing = 36 in / 3 = 12 in
Now, we can calculate the area of Alfredo's scale drawing by multiplying the length of the left edge by the length of the top edge:
Area = 12 in * 24 in = 288 square inches
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 288 square inches.