Question

A scale for an apartment is shown below. In the drawing, 2 I'm represents 5 m. Assuming the bedroom is rectangular, find the area of the real bedroom

Answer 1

The given scale is 2 cm to represents 5 m

The given dimension of the bed room is 2cm by 4cm

Since 2cm represents 5m ten

4 cm will represent 10 m

Hence the actual dimension of the bedroom is 5 m by 10 m

Therefore the area of the rectangle is:

`5*10=50`

Therefore the area of the bedroom is

`50m^2`