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A piece of carpet is 8 feet wide and 12 feet long. The carpet needs to be reduced by a scale factor so that the reduced carpet
is 2 feet wide. What is the area of the reduced carpet?
O 6 square feet
O 12 square feet
O 24 square feet
O 48 square feet
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6 square feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Carpet has w= 8 ft and l = 12 ft

Reduced carpet has w' = 2 ft

Reduction factor is

Then

Area of small carpet

step-by-step explanation:

because 1/3 is a fraction. we can tell because there is a divisor symbol between the 1 and the 3. if we were to add 2 fractions together, we would add the numerators, which is the number on top, but not the denominators, which is the number on the bottom

1/3+1/3=2/3

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