Use the table to answer the question.
Original Poster Scale Drawing
left edge (in.) 36 ?
top edge (in.) 24 8
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?
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Responses
96 square inches
96 square inches
12 square inches
12 square inches
192 square inches
192 square inches
1/3 square meters
To find the area of Alfredo's scale drawing, we need to determine the proportion of the scale drawing to the original poster.
The original poster has dimensions of 36 inches by 24 inches, making the area 36 * 24 = 864 square inches.
The scale drawing has a top edge of 8 inches, so the scale factor is 8/24 = 1/3.
Multiplying the scale factor by the area of the original poster gives us the area of Alfredo's scale drawing:
864 * 1/3 = 288 square inches
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 288 square inches.
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