FAN AND MEDAL
Danielle is creating a scale drawing of her room, the rectangular room measures 20 1/2 feet by 25 feet. If her drawing uses the scale where 1 inch represents 2 feet of the actual room, will her drawing fit on an 8 1/2in by 11in piece of paper? Use and expression to solve this problem.

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FAN AND MEDAL
Danielle is creating a scale drawing of her room, the rectangular room measures 20 1/2 feet by 25 feet. If her drawing uses the scale where 1 inch represents 2 feet of the actual room, will her drawing fit on an 8 1/2in by 11in  piece of paper? Use and expression to solve this problem.

asett · Answer

Can you take a stab at the dimensions of the scale drawing?

asett · Answer

If you use the equation |dw:1418753500248:dw|you should be able to figure out the dimensions of the scale drawing by plugging in 10.5 and 25 in place of the question mark and cancelling out the feet units, leaving the units in our answer: inches.