Question

Elena finds that the area of a house on a scale drawing is 25 square inches. The actual area of the house is 2,025 square feet.

What is the scale of the drawing?
1 inch to _?_ feet

(I also have an image attached)

Answer 1

9

Explanation:

Ratio of areas = (Ratio of sides)²

2025/25 = (feet/inch)²

sqrt(2025/25) = feet/inch

feet/inch = 9