SOLUTION: standard stop sign is 75cm across from one side of the red octagon to the opposite side, with a 2-cm white border, using a scale of 14, the ENTIRE width of an image of the stop sig

Question 1151508: standard stop sign is 75cm across from one side of the red octagon to the opposite side, with a 2-cm white border, using a scale of 14, the ENTIRE width of an image of the stop sign is _____cm. the width of the INSIDE red portion is ______cm
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
so you have as the width of the red octagon
since there is a boarder around,means you will have to add to the left and to the right of the red octagon
so, a total of is added to which gives you a total width of
now using a scale of we will get proportionally smaller image:

so.the width of the red octagon, to nearest tenth is
since given that the inside red portion is

so, to nearest tenth is
answer :
the ENTIRE width of an image of the stop sign is __ ___cm.
the width of the INSIDE red portion is ______cm

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