Question

I need to understand the processes of the following: "The scale drawing can be used to approximate the area where a colony of 3,000 ants live. What is the population density of ants per square foot? Round to the nearest whole number."

Answer 1

what do you think?

Answer 2

Well, if you make the parts of the circle into squares, they're six-by-six, so they'd be thirty-six tiles each. But at least five of the tiles of each square would not be used, as seen here:

Answer 3

@chosenmatt There's what I think of it. Can't find the right formula...