Cloth Cost

Geometry Level 1

If the cost of a cloth $\text{2 m}$ wide and $\text{2 m}$ long is $2$ dollars, what is the cost of a cloth $\ce{1 m}$ wide and $\ce{1 m}$ long?

1

dollar

50

cents

25

cents None of the others

1 solution

Mahdi Raza
Mar 6, 2020

$\begin{aligned} \text{Cloth{A} has an area} &= 2m \times 2m \\ &= \boxed{4m^{2}} \end{aligned}$

$\begin{aligned} \text{Cloth{B} has an area} &= 1m \times 1m \\ &= \boxed{1m^{2}} \end{aligned}$

$\begin{aligned} 4m^{2} &= \$2 \\ \therefore 1m^{2} &= \boxed{\$0.5} \end{aligned}$