Interior designers and construction workers use scale drawings to create floor plans for spaces they are working in. Scale drawings help them determine appropriate sizes and placement of furnishings or cabinets.Correctly reducing the actual dimensions to those in a floor plan or blueprint is crucial. Even a small error can result in awkward or disfunctional living spaces.

The Goal

Here are the things you will do in this lesson.

• Draw enlargements and reductions of polygons
• Solve contextual problems involving similar polygons