Question

(05.01)Mark wants to create a scale drawing of the poster shown below: A rectangle is shown. The length of the rectangle is labeled 4 centimeters. The width of the rectangle is labeled 10 centimeters. What are the dimensions of the poster at one-half its current size?

Answer 1

Answer: 2 cm by 5 cm

Step-by-step explanation: you half the original numbers

Answer 2

The scale drawing will be 2 cm by 5 cm.

Explanation:

A scale drawing is a larger or smaller version of an object. To find the dimensions of the new drawing, multiply each measurment by the scale factor. The scale factor here is 1/2 or 0.5.

4(0.5)=2

10(0.5)=5

The scale drawing will be 2 cm by 5 cm.