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An illustration shows a rectangle with a length of 4 meters and a width of 3 meters.

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?
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3.5 square centimeters

0.75 square meters

1.33 square meters

12 square meters

1 answer

0.75 square meters

Explanation: Since the longer side measures 1 meter, the shorter side (width) in the scale drawing would be 0.75 meters (since 3 meters in the actual rectangle corresponds to 1 meter in the scale drawing).
Therefore, the area of the scale drawing is 1 meter * 0.75 meters = 0.75 square meters.