computing actual areas from a scale drawing

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Computing Actual Areas from a Scale Drawing

• Why do you think this is? Why do you think it is squared (opposed to cubed or something else)?

• How might you use this information in working with scale drawings?

• Suppose a rectangle has an area of 12 square m. If it is enlarged by a scale factor of three, what area would you predict the enlarged rectangle to have based on these three examples. Look and think carefully!

When given a scale drawing, how do we go about finding the area of the actual object?

• Describe a situation where you might need to know the area of an object given a scale drawing or scale model?

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