Question

Spencer draw a rectangular to represent the side of the city block where he lives the rectangle is labeled in inches Spencer decide he wants to make a smaller scale drawing in the red tongue and which the width is just 1.5 in Long what will be the length of the rectangle and Spencer's new scale drawing write your answer in their small form 12 inch side 20 in side

Answer 1

To find the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scaled drawing, we can use the ratio of the original dimensions to the dimensions in the scaled drawing.

Original dimensions:
Length = 20 inches
Width = 12 inches

Scaled dimensions:
Width = 1.5 inches

Let x be the length of the rectangle in the scaled drawing. The ratio of width in the original to width in the scaled drawing is:

12/1.5 = 20/x

Solving for x, we find:

x = 20/12 * 1.5 = 2.5

Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scaled drawing is 2.5 inches.