Question

A rancher divided his land into square sections. One large section has an area of 112 square miles. To the nearest tenth of a mile, what is the length of one side of this tract of land?

Answer 1

Answer:

answer: 0.64

Step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure