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?
To find the area of Alfredo's scale drawing, we need to first find the dimensions of the scale drawing using the scale given.
The scale for the top edge is 24 inches in the original poster and 8 inches in the scale drawing. Therefore, the scale factor is 24/8 = 3.
Using the scale factor of 3, we can find the length of the left edge in the scale drawing:
36 inches / 3 = 12 inches
Now that we have both dimensions of the scale drawing, we can calculate the area:
Area = length x width
Area = 12 inches x 8 inches
Area = 96 square inches
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 96 square inches.