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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?
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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?

User Kalyan Maddu
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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 :)
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