Use the table to answer the question.
Original Poster Scale Drawing
left edge (in.) 36 ?
top edge (in.) 24 8
A local food organization puts out a healthy foods poster. The poster is in the shape of a rectangle, and its dimensions are given in the table. Alfredo wants to make a smaller version of the poster to hang up in the community center. He makes a scale drawing of the poster with the length of the top edge given in the table. What is the area of Alfredo’s scale drawing?
(1 point)
Responses
192 square inches
192 square inches
96 square inches
96 square inches
12 square inches
12 square inches
13 square meters
96 square inches
To find the area of the scale drawing, we need to multiply the dimensions of the scale drawing. The scale factor for the length of the top edge is 8 (original) to 24 (scale drawing). So, we can calculate the width of the scale drawing by taking 36 (original width) and multiplying it by the same scale factor, which gives us 12 (scale drawing width).
Therefore, the area of Alfredo's scale drawing is 8 x 12 = 96 square inches.