Rihanna planned a rectangular courtyard for a park and made a scale drawing using inches as the unit of measurement. She originally planned for the length of the actual courtyard to be 54 feet, but she decided to change it to 72 feet. If the length of the courtyard is 18 inches in her scale drawing, which statement about the change of scale is true?
Answer
A
One inch represented 1 foot in the first scale, but now 1 inch represents 4 feet in the second scale.
B
One inch represented 4 feet in the first scale, but now 1 inch represents 3 feet in the second scale.
C
One inch represented 54 feet in the first scale, but now 1 inch represents 72 feet in the second scale.
D
One inch represented 3 feet in the first scale, but now 1 inch now represents 4 feet in the second scale.