Spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where he lives. The rectangle is labeled in inches. Spencer decides he wants to make a smaller scale drawing of the rectangle in which the width is just 1.5 inches long. What will be the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing? Write your answer in decimal form.

Question

The rectangle's sides are:
Top and Bottom side is: 20 in
left and right side is 12

Answer 1

First, we need to determine the scale factor by dividing the length of the width of the original rectangle by the desired width of the new scale drawing.

Scale factor = Original width / New width
Scale factor = 12 in / 1.5 in
Scale factor = 8

Now, multiply the scale factor by the length of the original rectangle to find the length of the new scale drawing.

New length = Scale factor * Original length
New length = 8 * 20 in
New length = 160 in

Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing will be 160 inches.

Answer 2

answer has to be on a decimal form

Answer 3

To convert 160 inches to decimal form, we divide 160 by 1 to keep the number the same:

160 / 1 = 160

Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing will be 160.0 inches in decimal form.

Answer 4

WRONG

Answer 5

Apologies for the mistake. Let's try again:

To find the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing in decimal form, we will divide the original length by the scale factor:

Original length: 20 inches
Scale factor: 12 inches / 1.5 inches = 8

New length = Original length / Scale factor
New length = 20 inches / 8
New length = 2.5 inches

Therefore, the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing will be 2.5 inches in decimal form.

Answer 6

its 2.5