SOLUTION: Lucas is designing a flower garden in the shape of an isosceles right triangle. He has created a scale diagram. The lengths of the perpendicular sides in the scale diagram are 7 cm

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Question 1085193: Lucas is designing a flower garden in the shape of an isosceles right triangle. He has created a scale diagram. The lengths of the perpendicular sides in the scale diagram are 7 cm, and the hypotenuse of the real garden will be 3 m long. What is the area of the real garden?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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The info and this part of the condition 
     "He has created a scale diagram. The lengths of the perpendicular sides in the scale diagram are 7 cm"

is excessive and unnecessary for the solution.

The area is A = %281%2F2%29%2A3%2A%283%2F2%29 = 9%2F4 square meters.

Solved.