Mr. brewster wants to put a deck along two consecutive sides of his rectangular koi pond. the pond is 20 feet by 15 feet. the deck width will be the same on both sides and the total area of the pond and deck cannot exceed 500 square feet. what widths are possible for the deck?

answer: the area of the parallelogram below is 42 square meters.

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option a is correct.

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:

by definition of proportions, we have

step-by-step explanation: