Scale Drawings Introduction

A rectangle with a side length of 16 cm is reduced to a rectangle with a side length of 4 cm. What scale factor was used?

A rectangle has side lengths of 3.5 cm and 8 cm. It is enlarged with a scale factor of 4 to create a new rectangle. What is the area of the new rectangle?

Look at Figure A and Figure B below.

Figure A is a scale image of Figure B, as shown.

Click on the two figures that have a scale factor of 4 between them.

Which TWO figures are scale images of the shape below?

Which statements about the original rectangle described below are true and which are false?

A swimming pool will be in the shape of a rectangle. It will have an area of 1,800 square feet. A scale drawing of the swimming pool is shown.

Look at the figures below.

Using evidence from the figures below, determine if Figure 2 is a scale image of Figure 1. Explain your thinking.