The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 25 square centimeters, and the scale drawing is 1 centimeter:4 ft. What is the area of the actual floor? What is the ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area? Fill in the blank. The area of the actual floor is square feet. The ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area is 1 square centimeter: square feet.

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.