Asked by DeMarcus Smith

A piece of carpet is 8 feet wide and 12 feet long. The carpet needs to be reduced by a scale factor so that the reduced carpet is 2 feet wide. What is the area of the reduced carpet?
6 square feet
12 square feet
24 square feet
48 square feet
Answered by Henry
8/x = 2.
X = 4 = Scale factor.

Area = 8/4 * 12/4 = 6 Ft^2.