Spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where he lives. The rectangle is labeled in inches. Spencer decides he wants to make a smaller scale, drawing a rectangle in which the width is just 1.5 inches long. What will be the length of rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing write your answer in decimal form

Question

Spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where he lives. The rectangle is labeled in inches. Spencer decides he wants to make a smaller scale, drawing a rectangle in which the width is just 1.5 inches long. What will be the length of rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing write your answer in decimal form

Answer 1

In order to find the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing, we need to determine the scale factor between the original rectangle and the new smaller rectangle.

Let's assume the original width of the city block rectangle is x inches. The scale factor is then x / 1.5 = 1/1.5 = 0.6667.

Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing will be 0.6667 inches.