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?
(1 point)
Responses
96 square inches
96 square inches
12 square inches
12 square inches
192 square inches
192 square inches
13 square meters
Start Fraction 1 over 3 end fraction square meters
To find the scale factor, we can divide the length of the original poster's top edge by the length of Alfredo's scale drawing's top edge:
Scale factor = 24 / 8 = 3
Now, we can use the scale factor to find the length of the scale drawing's left edge:
Length of scale drawing's left edge = 36 / 3 = 12 inches
To find the area of Alfredo's scale drawing, we can simply multiply the length and the width:
Area = 12 * 8 = 96 square inches
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 96 square inches.
The correct answer is: 96 square inches