Question

A triangular flag has a height of 15 inches and a base length of 25 inches. Magnolia makes a scale drawing of the flag in which the base length is 10 inches. What is the area of Magnolia’s scale drawing? Solve the problem by computing the actual area from the scale drawing. Show your work.(4 points) make it sound like a 7th grader wrote it please

Answer 1

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Ok, so there's this triangular flag that is 15 inches tall and has a base that is 25 inches long. Magnolia made a scale drawing of the flag where the base is only 10 inches long. We need to find out the area of Magnolia's scale drawing. First, we need to figure out the scale factor, which is 10/25 = 2/5. To find the height of the scale drawing, we need to multiply the actual height by the scale factor, so 15 x 2/5 = 6 inches. Now, we can find the area of the scale drawing by multiplying the base length (10 inches) by the height (6 inches) and then dividing by 2, so (10 x 6)/2 = 30 square inches. So, the area of Magnolia's scale drawing is 30 square inches.