Use the image to answer the question.
An illustration shows a rectangle with a length of 4 meters and a width of 3 meters.
The rectangle shows the outline of a campsite in a national forest. Anna makes a scale drawing of the campsite in which the longer side measures 1 meter. What is the area of the scale drawing in square meters?
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Responses
12 square meters
12 square meters
0.75 square meters
0.75 square meters
1.33 square meters
1.33 square meters
3.5 square centimeters
3.5 square centimeters
The area of the original rectangle is 4 meters x 3 meters = 12 square meters.
If the longer side in the scale drawing is 1 meter, then the shorter side will be 0.75 meters (since it is to scale).
The area of the scale drawing will be 1 meter x 0.75 meters = 0.75 square meters.
Therefore, the correct answer is 0.75 square meters.