Question

A rectangle has a length of 12 inches and a width of 6 inches. A second rectangle will be drawn with a scale factor of

1
3
. What is the area of the second rectangle?

Answer 1

36 × 18=648

Explanation:

first one should do the area which results to 36 inches.

secondly do 3 × length of each side of the rectangle since scale factor is gotten by doing the recipricol of the scale factor given.