document.write( "Question 1117506: In the gift shop of the History of Flight museum, Elisa bought a kit to make a model of a jet plane. The actual plane is 21 feet long with a wingspan of 17.5 feet. If the finished model will be 12 inches long, what will the wingspan be?
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\n" ); document.write( "Set up a proportion between the length and wingspan of the plane and the model:

\n" ); document.write( "21 feet/12 inches = 17.5 feet/x inches

\n" ); document.write( "As long as the units in the two fractions correspond, we can have mixed units; and they can be ignored in the computation.

\n" ); document.write( "\"21%2F12+=+17.5%2Fx\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"7%2F4+=+17.5%2Fx\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"7x+=+70\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"x+=+10\"

\n" ); document.write( "The wingspan of the model is 10 inches.
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