Question

A piece of carpet is 8 feet wide and 12 feet long. The carpet needs to be reduced by a scale factor so that the reduced carpet is 2 feet wide. What is the area of the reduced carpet?

6 square feet
12 square feet
24 square feet
48 square feet

Answer 1

can someone please help

Answer 2

8 ft wide

12 ft long

In order to make it 2 ft wide, You have a scale factor of 1/4.

That means that your length will be

12 * 1/4

= 12/4

= 3 ft long


A = L * W

SO

A = 3 * 2

A = 6 square ft

Answer 3

thank you

Answer 4

Np