Asked by Anonymous

The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 36 square centimeters, and the scale drawing is 1 centimeter:3 ft. What is the area of the actual floor? What is the ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area?
Answered by oobleck
(1cm:3ft)^2 = 1cm^2 : 9ft^2 = 36cm^2 : 324ft^2