Question

The rectangular floor of a classroom is 24 feet in length and 36 feet in width. A scale drawing of the floor has a length of 8 inches. What is the area, in square inches, of the floor in the scale drawing?

Answer 1

If 24 feet is no 8 inches according to our new scale.

Then 36 feet would become 13 inches.

Area=13×8=104 inches²