A scale drawing for the floor of a rectangular office shows the floor to be 33 feet long and 24 feet wide. The business wants to increase the length of the floor by 30%. The builder recreates the scale drawing to show this change. If the scale drawing shows that 1 centimeter=6 feet, then what is the length of the floor on the new scale drawing?

A. 1.65 cm
B. 4.90 cm
C. 7.15 cm
D. 10.50 cm

C. 7.15 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

step 1

Find the new length of the floor

Remember that

The new length is equal to the original length multiplied by 1.30

so

step 2

Find the  length of the floor on the new scale drawing

we have that

The scale drawing is

That means

1 cm in the drawing represent 6 feet in the actual

Multiply the length of the floor in the actual by the scale drawing

so

so what is the problem what are they asking you to solve

step-by-step explanation:

so what is the problem what are they asking you to solve