The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 100 square centimeters, and the scale of the drawing is 1 cm: 2 ft. what is the area of the actual floor?

Question

asked Sep 3, 2017 101k views

1 Answer

Jtomasrl · Answer 1 · 2017-09-08T13:08:21+0000

The square root of 100 is 10. The drawing must be 10 cm by 10 cm.

1 cm = 2 ft, so 10 cm must equal 20 feet.

20 * 20 = 400 square feet :)