Question

Maggie has space in her yard for a garden. A scale drawing of the garden is shown below. The scale of the drawing is 1 cm - 2.5 ft.6 cm!616 cmWhat is the area of Maggie's actual garden?

Answer 1

Units change translation from cm to feets

1 cm is equivalent to 2.5 feets

triangle is a rectangular triangle suported with the bigger side

this means the height of triangle is 6cm

the base is 16 cm

the area is (base x height)/2

so then area= 16x 6/2= 48cm ^2

BUT because 1cm is equivalent to 2.5 feets then

multiply 48 x 2.5 x 2.5 = 48 x 6.25 = 300 ft^2