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An artist wants to reduce the size of a drawing using a scale factor of 3:1 . The original drawing has an area of 720 square inches. What is area of the new drawing? Enter your answer in the box. in²
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An artist wants to reduce the size of a drawing using a scale factor of 3:1 . The original drawing has an area of 720 square inches. What is area of the new drawing? Enter your answer in the box. in²

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Since the artist wants to scale his drawing down 3 times, we simply divide the area of his drawing by 3, to get 720/3=240.
The artist wants his drawing area to be 240 in^2
Hope this answered your question.
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