SOLUTION: an office building is 80ft tall by 60ft wide a scale model of the building is 9 inches wide which of the following what is the height?
A.44in
B.26in
C.10in
D.12in
How do
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Question 732715: an office building is 80ft tall by 60ft wide a scale model of the building is 9 inches wide which of the following what is the height?
A.44in
B.26in
C.10in
D.12in
How do I figure this out
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up a proportion:
( actual height ) / ( actual width ) = ( scaled height ) / ( scaled width )
Call the scaled height inches
Multiply both sides by
The scaled height is (D) 12 inches
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