There are 23 boxes of pencil in mr. shaw's supply cabinet each box contains 100 pencils how many pencils are in the supply cabinet

2300 because since there are 23 boxes and 100 pencils in each box, you'd do 23*100 to get 2300pencils in the supply cabinet

option a is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure:

by definition of proportions, we have