Question

Candy needs to know how much fertilizer to buy her garden at home. To help Candy find out how much fertilizer she needs for her garden, use the scale drawing below to determine the area of actual garden.

Answer 1

The relation between the draw and the real garden is 1 in to 4 ft so we can find the new sides with a rule of 3, so the long side will be:

$x_1=\frac{7\cdot4}{1}=28$

and the short side:

$x_2=\frac{3.4\cdot4}{1}=13.6$

So the real area will be:

$\begin{gathered} A=28\cdot13.6 \\ A=380.8ft^2 \end{gathered}$