An artist wants to reduce the size of a drawing using a scale factor of 3:1 . The original drawing has an area of 720 square inches. What is area of the new drawing? Enter your answer in the box. in²
Since the artist wants to scale his drawing down 3 times, we simply divide the area of his drawing by 3, to get 720/3=240. The artist wants his drawing area to be 240 in^2 Hope this answered your question.
