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The rectangular floor of a classroom is 24 feet in length and 20 feet in width. A scale drawing of the floor has a length of 12 inches. What is the perimeter, in inches, of the floor in the scale drawing?
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The rectangular floor of a classroom is 2424 feet in length and 2020 feet in width. A scale drawing of the floor has a length of 1212 inches. What is the perimeter, in inches, of the floor in the scale drawing?\newlineAnswer: \square in.

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Q. The rectangular floor of a classroom is 2424 feet in length and 2020 feet in width. A scale drawing of the floor has a length of 1212 inches. What is the perimeter, in inches, of the floor in the scale drawing?\newlineAnswer: \square in.
  1. Identify Scale: Identify the scale used in the drawing.\newlineThe actual length of the classroom is 2424 feet, and the length in the scale drawing is 1212 inches. Since 11 foot is equal to 1212 inches, the scale is 11 inch in the drawing for every 22 feet of actual length.
  2. Calculate Width: Calculate the scale length of the width in the drawing.\newlineThe actual width of the classroom is 2020 feet. Using the scale from Step 11, the width in the scale drawing would be 2020 feet ×\times (12(12 inches /2/ 2 feet)=120) = 120 inches /2=60/ 2 = 60 inches.
  3. Calculate Perimeter: Calculate the perimeter of the classroom in the scale drawing.\newlineThe perimeter of a rectangle is calculated by adding together the lengths of all four sides. In the scale drawing, the length is 1212 inches, and the width (from Step 22) is 6060 inches. So, the perimeter is $\(2\) \times (\text{length} + \text{width}) = \(2\) \times (\(12\) \text{ inches} + \(60\) \text{ inches}) = \(2\) \times \(72\) \text{ inches} = \(144\) \text{ inches}.
  4. Convert Units: Convert the perimeter to the desired unit if necessary.\(\newline\)The perimeter is already in inches, which is the unit asked for in the question prompt. Therefore, no conversion is necessary.

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