Poster has length of 10 and width of 4 ft. New poster us redone to scale and has width of 2 ft. wut is area of new poster? ( Must include proper units )

Answer 1

To find the area of the new poster, we first need to determine the scale factor. The original poster has a width of 4 ft and the new poster has a width of 2 ft. The scale factor can be calculated as follows:

Scale factor = New width / Original width = 2 ft / 4 ft = 0.5

Now, we apply this scale factor to the length of the original poster to find the new length:

New length = Original length × Scale factor = 10 ft × 0.5 = 5 ft

Now, we can calculate the area of the new poster using the formula for the area of a rectangle (Area = length × width):

Area = New length × New width = 5 ft × 2 ft = 10 ft²

Therefore, the area of the new poster is 10 square feet (ft²).