Question

A restaurant uses a folded paper box for to-go orders. A to-go meal container has a surface area of 40 in². To make a to-go meal container for salad dressing, the to-go meal container is reduced by a scale factor of 1212 .
The surface area of a scaled figure equals the original surface area times the square of the scale factor.

How much paper is needed to make the to-go salad dressing container?

5 in²

10 in²

15 in²

20 in²

Answer 1

It's C)12 squared because you have to look outside of the box