Question

The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 100 square centimeters and the scale of the drawing is 1 centimeter:2ft. What is the area of the actual floor? What is the ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area?

Answer 1

The square root of 100 is 10. The drawing must be 10 cm by 10 cm.

1 cm = 2 ft, so 10 cm must equal 20 feet.

20 * 20 = 400 square feet

Answer 2

Your correct

Answer 3

I don't really understand.

Answer 4

I don't even know

Answer 5

The area of the actual floor is 400 square feet. The ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area is 1 square centimeter: 20 square feet.