To start planning the rooms' floor plans, you draw them each to scale on large sheets of paper. You are going to use the scale 1
foot: 2 inches. That is, 1 foot in real life will be represented by 2 inches on your paper. How many square inches of paper do you need for the bedroom? explain how you came up with your answer.
For similar figures, the ratio of areas is the square of the ratio of linear dimensions. The smaller billboard requires .. (4/5)^2 * 250 ft^2 = 160 ft^ of material.
