SOLUTION: a boy made a shirt for himself and a proportional one for a small doll. The boy was 5feet 5inches tall and the doll was13inches tall, The boy shirtsleeve was 30 inches long in inch

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Question 639599: a boy made a shirt for himself and a proportional one for a small doll. The boy was 5feet 5inches tall and the doll was13inches tall, The boy shirtsleeve was 30 inches long in inches, how long in inches was the sleeve of the dolls shirt?

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5 feet 5 inches is 5 feet times 12 inches plus 5 inches is 65 inches, so



Reduce to lowest terms in the LHS, cross-multiply, and solve for

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