Brianna had a garden box in her back yard that is 8 feet by 12 feet. this summer she decides that it is too big and wants to reduce it by a scale factor of 1/2. find the area of her new garden.

Step-by-step explanation:

The formula for calculate the area of a rectangle is:

Where "l" is the length and "w" is the width.

You can identify that the dimensions of the garden box are:

Therefore, its area is:

SInce Brianna  wants to reduce it by a scale factor of , the area of the new garden is:

a is the correct

example 2 – simplify: step 1: completely factor both the numerators and denominators of all fractions. step 2: change the division sign to a multiplication sign and flip (or reciprocate) the fraction after the division sign; essential you need to multiply by the reciprocal. step 3 : cancel or reduce the fractions.