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

8 ft wide, 12 ft long......so if u want it 2 ft wide, u have a scale factor of 1/4.
that means ur length will be 12 * 1/4 = 12/4 = 3 ft long

A = L * W
A = 3 * 2
A = 6 square ft <==

Answer 2

Answer:

A.6

Step-by-step explanation:

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