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)
O 96 square inches
• 192 sauare inches
O 12 square inches
O ‡ square meters
To find the area of the scale drawing, we need to use the scale factor between the original poster and Alfredo's scale drawing. The scale factor can be found by dividing the length of the top edge of the scale drawing by the length of the top edge of the original poster:
Scale factor = 8 / 24 = 1/3
Now we can find the dimensions of Alfredo's scale drawing by applying the scale factor to the original dimensions of the poster:
Length of top edge = 24 * (1/3) = 8 inches
Length of left edge = 36 * (1/3) = 12 inches
Now we can find the area of Alfredo's scale drawing by multiplying the length of the top edge by the length of the left edge:
Area = 8 * 12 = 96 square inches
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 96 square inches.