1. When Pascal built a dog house, he knew he wanted the
   

floor of the house to have an area of 24 square feet.

He also wanted the width to be 2_

3 the length. What are

the dimensions of the dog house?


First, choose two numbers that have a product of 24.

Guess(es): ___ feet and ___ feet

Equation: 2/3 x ___=____

1. What if Pascal wanted the area of the
   

floor to be 54 square feet and the width

still to be 2/3 the length? What would

the dimensions of the floor be?

1. Leo wants to paint a mural that covers
   

a wall with an area of 1,440 square feet.

The height of the wall is 2/5 of its length.

What is the length and the height of

the wall?

4. Barry wants to make a drawing that is 1/4 the size of the original. If the tree in the original drawing is 14 inches tall, how tall will the tree be in Barry's drawing be?

5. A blueprint is a scale drawing of a
building. The dimensions of the blueprint for
Penny’s doll house are 1/4  of the measurements
of the actual doll house. The floor of the doll
house has an area of 864 square inches. If the
width of the doll house is 2/3 the length, what are
the dimensions of the floor on the blueprint of
the doll house?

6. Look back
at Number 4. Write a similar problem using a
different measurement and a different fraction.
Then solve your problem.

7. Albert’s photograph has an area of
80 square inches. The length of the photo is
1 1_
4 the width. Which of the following could be
the dimensions of the photograph?

 A. 5 inches by 16 inches

 B. 12 inches by 10 inches

 C. 6 inches by 5 inches

 D. 10 inches by 8 inches