Question

A rectangle has an original area of 50 square feet. A similar rectangle has the new area of 1,250 square feet. What is the scale factor for the similar rectangles?

Answer 1

Hey there.

To find the scale factor between these two rectangles, we need to divide our new by our original.

Our new area = 1,250 sq ft
Our old area = 50 sq ft

1250 / 50 = 25.

This means our scale factor is 25.


I hope this helps!