(an image shows a picture of a rectangle with a height of 4 m and a base of 3 m) The rectangle shows the outline of a campsite in a national forest. Anna makes a scale drawing of the campsite in which the longer side measures 1 meter. What is the area of the scale drawing in square meters?

Answer 1

The scale factor is 1 meter for the longer side of the rectangle which has a length of 4 meters.

To find the area of the scale drawing, we need to scale down the dimensions of the original rectangle by a factor of 1/4.

The new dimensions of the rectangle in the scale drawing will be 1 meter for the longer side and 3/4 meter for the shorter side (4 meters * 1/4 = 1 meter and 3 meters * 1/4 = 3/4 meters).

Therefore, the area of the scale drawing will be 1 meter * 3/4 meter = 3/4 square meters or 0.75 square meters.

So, the area of the scale drawing will be 0.75 square meters.