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document.write( "A scale model of a train engine is 1 and three fourths (1 3/4) inches long.   A real engine is 28 feet long.  If a freight car on the model train is three eights (3/8) inch long, what is the actual size of the freight car on the real train?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A.  6 feet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "B.  42 feet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "C.  72  feet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "D.  512 feet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A scale model of a train engine is 1 and three fourths (1 3/4) inches long. A real engine is 28 feet long. If a freight car on the model train is three eights (3/8) inch long, what is the actual size of the freight car on the real train?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Use a proportion:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x/(3/8) = 28 ft/(1 3/4)in<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = (3/8)(28/(7/4))<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = (3/8)(4/7)(28)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = (3/8)16<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = 3*2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = 6 ft.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A. 6 feet <BR>\n" );
document.write( "B. 42 feet <BR>\n" );
document.write( "C. 72 feet <BR>\n" );
document.write( "D. 512 feet <BR>\n" );
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