Question

A commercial real estate developer creates a scale drawing of a commercial property that he
hopes to sell. The ratio of the area of the drawing to the actual area of the commercial property
is 1 ft? : 900 ft. The developer hopes to sell the commercial space for $1,800,000, which
would be equivalent to $1000 per 1 square foot (ft?) of the property's area. To the nearest
square foot, what is the area of the scale drawing?

Answer 1

Find the area of the actual property by diving the sale price by the price per square foot:

1,800,000 / 1,000 = 1,800 square feet

Divide actual are by the scale:

1800 / 900 = 2

The scale drawing is 2 square inches.