Question

The area of the scale drawing is
27
square inches.

If the scale is 1 inch = 4 feet, the area of the actual deck would be
108
square feet.

Numerically, the value of the area of the actual deck would be
4
times the value of the area of the scale drawing.

Based on these results, if the scale is 1 inch = k feet, the area of the actual deck would be ____
square feet.

Answer 1

Hi @khi11233 ! Welcome to QuestionCove

give me a minute to finish reading your question :)

Answer 2

hey @angle okieeee

Answer 3

Are some of what you had included already your own answers?

Answer 4

@angle yessirrr

Answer 5

did you put 108 as your own answer or was that number given to you?

Answer 6

108 was put in by me

Answer 7

i it wrong?

Answer 8

Hello are you new to questioncove @khi11233?

Answer 9

ok, you have almost the right idea but 108 is not quite correct, so let's start there

Answer 10

@renne yup

Answer 11

@angle ok

Answer 12

ok if I had a 3 by 9 rectangle, that would give me the 27 area that the question says right?

Answer 13

OHH I see

Answer 14

OK, so what if we multiplied every side length by 4?

Answer 15

=48?

Answer 16

A picture like this, what would be the new area?

Answer 17

Did u try to multiply it?

Answer 18

1728?

Answer 19

i hate math :( thanks for helping me guys

Answer 20

the area of the whole new shape is going to be 144 + 16 = ?

Answer 21

ohhhhh ok thank youuuuu

Answer 22

let's back up a little

are you sure the picture you included matches the question you were trying to ask?

Answer 23

yes

Answer 24

but the area of the original picture was 10

the area in the question your asking starts with 27

Answer 25

its on study island and everything is copy and pasted

Answer 26

im as confused as you

Answer 27

I just noticed that too...

Answer 28

Did you send the wrong picture?

Answer 29

well.. I'm going to go back and answer the original question

If the scale factor is 4
we want to use this formula to get the scale factor of the AREA

Answer 30

no i dont think so ill send yall a screenshot

Answer 31

oh

Answer 32

Ok. Just to make sure we didn't by any chance do anything wrong

Answer 33

well... uhhh
27 wasn't correct either

glad we noticed that

Answer 34

Oh yeahhh

Answer 35

Good thing you saw that angel

Answer 36

Let's figure out why 27 was wrong

what is the area of the rectangle on the left there? (3x3)

Answer 37

Hmm...well..

Answer 38

What is 9 + 1 = ?

Answer 39

mb my computer wouldnt let me type

Answer 40

10

Answer 41

awesome, and what was the number you answered before?
144 + 16 = ?

Answer 42

160

Answer 43

perfect!

and what number would you multiply by 10 to get 160?

Answer 44

16

Answer 45

awesome

and what number times itself is 16?

Answer 46

4

Answer 47

Awesome

so now you have all of your answers
in the first box, the original is 10
in the second box, the new is 160
in the forth box, the number you multiply by 10 to get 160 is 16
and in the last box, we are saying that "k" times itself (k^2) is why 4x4=16

Answer 48

Nice skills angel.

Answer 49

Your better then me.

Answer 50

and nice job @khi11233

Answer 51

thank you @angle and @renne yall are the best! i been stuck for a good minute

Answer 52

You really put in effort we are only here to help thats what were here for so good job once again

Answer 53

appreciate it have a nice day

Answer 54

You too