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 1.5 inches long. What will be the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing? Write your answer in decimal form.(1 point)
THE RECTANGLE IS 20 INCHES AND 12 INCHES
In the original drawing, the length of the rectangle is 12 inches. To find the length in the new scale drawing where the width is just 1.5 inches long, we need to calculate the new length using the scale factor.
First, we calculate the scale factor by dividing the new width (1.5 inches) by the original width (20 inches):
Scale factor = 1.5 / 20 = 0.075
Now, we can determine the length in the new scale drawing by multiplying the original length (12 inches) by the scale factor:
New length = 12 * 0.075 = 0.9 inches
Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing will be 0.9 inches.