Question

In a scale drawing for a shed, 1 inch = 2 feet. The shed floor is 3 inches by 4 inches on the drawing. What will its area be?

Answer 1

The area of the shed floor will be 48 square feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the area of the shed floor in the scale drawing, we need to convert the dimensions of the drawing to their actual dimensions.

Since 1 inch in the drawing represents 2 feet in real life, we multiply the length and width of the drawing in inches by 2 to get the actual length and width of the shed floor in feet.

The length of the shed floor in feet is 3 inches x 2 = 6 feet and the width is 4 inches x 2 = 8 feet.

Now we can find the area by multiplying the length and width together: 6 feet x 8 feet = 48 square feet.