Question

Below is a scale drawing of a stage that Syla is designing. A rectangle with length 8 centimeters and width 5 centimeters. Using the scale 1 cm : 7 m, Syla calculated the width, or the shorter side of the stage, to be 35 m. She decides to change the scale to 1 cm : 10 m. What is the width of the new stage?

Answer 1

Answer:

50m

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the dimension

Length of the rectangle = 8cm

Width = 5cm

Note that when the scale was 1:7, syla multiplied the width by a factor of 7 i.e 5*7 = 35m

If syla changes the the scale to 1 cm : 10 m for the rectangle, then the width of the shorter side will be multiplied by a factor of 10 due to the change in scale i.e;

5 * 10 = 50m

Hence the width of the new stage will be 50 m