his is a scale drawing of an actual shopping plaza. What percent of the shopping plaza is the coffee shop?

Start by finding the area of the entire shopping plaza on the map.
A scale map of a shopping plaza with dimensions 30 cm by 10 cm. Within the shopping plaza are a pharmacy and a coffee shop with dimensions 5 cm by 6 cm.
The area of the entire shopping plaza is
square cm.

User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
2 hours ago

To find the area of the entire shopping plaza on the map, you can use the formula for the area of a rectangle, which is length multiplied by width.

Given the dimensions of the shopping plaza:

  • Length = 30 cm
  • Width = 10 cm

So, the area of the shopping plaza is calculated as follows:

\[ \text{Area of shopping plaza} = \text{Length} \times \text{Width} = 30 , \text{cm} \times 10 , \text{cm} = 300 , \text{square cm} \]

Now, let's find the area of the coffee shop. The dimensions of the coffee shop are:

  • Length = 5 cm
  • Width = 6 cm

Using the same formula for the area:

\[ \text{Area of coffee shop} = \text{Length} \times \text{Width} = 5 , \text{cm} \times 6 , \text{cm} = 30 , \text{square cm} \]

Next, to find the percentage of the shopping plaza that is occupied by the coffee shop, we use the formula:

\[ \text{Percentage} = \left( \frac{\text{Area of coffee shop}}{\text{Area of shopping plaza}} \right) \times 100 \]

Substituting the areas we calculated:

\[ \text{Percentage} = \left( \frac{30 , \text{square cm}}{300 , \text{square cm}} \right) \times 100 = 10% \]

Therefore, the area of the entire shopping plaza is 300 square cm, and the percentage of the shopping plaza that is the coffee shop is 10%.