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?Answer: □ in.
Q. 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?Answer: □ in.
Identify Scale: Identify the scale used in the drawing.The actual length of the classroom is 24 feet, and the length in the scale drawing is 12 inches. Since 1 foot is equal to 12 inches, the scale is 1 inch in the drawing for every 2 feet of actual length.
Calculate Width: Calculate the scale length of the width in the drawing.The actual width of the classroom is 20 feet. Using the scale from Step 1, the width in the scale drawing would be 20 feet ×(12 inches /2 feet)=120 inches /2=60 inches.
Calculate Perimeter: Calculate the perimeter of the classroom in the scale drawing.The perimeter of a rectangle is calculated by adding together the lengths of all four sides. In the scale drawing, the length is 12 inches, and the width (from Step 2) is 60 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}.
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.