Question

A rectangle is reduced by a scale factor of One-fourth.

A large rectangle has a length of 16 and width of 12. A smaller rectangle has length of 4 and width of 3.

Which choices show the ratio of the area of the smaller rectangle to the area of the larger rectangle? Select three options.
StartFraction 4 over 16 EndFraction
(StartFraction 4 over 16 EndFraction) squared
StartFraction 12 over 192 EndFraction
StartFraction 4 squared over 12 squared EndFraction
(StartFraction 3 over 12 EndFraction squared

Answer 1

I'll ignore all that wordy text formatting stuff, and cut to the chase.
The area scales as the square of the linear ratio, which is 4/16 (or 3/12).
So, ...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The answer is 4/16^2