Question

Use the drawing below to answer the question that follows.Part A What is the scale factor used when going from the larger rectangle to the smaller one?Part BWhat is the length of the missing side?

Answer 1

Cats, this is the solution:

Part A

Let's observe that the lenght of the bigf rectangle is 16 feet and the length of the small rectangle is 8 feet, therefore the ratio is:

16:8, if we simplify it, we get 2:1.

Part B

Now, we can can calculate the length of the missing side, as follows:

2:1 = 11:x

11 = 2x

Dividing by 2 at both sides:

x = 5.5 feet