SOLUTION: You have just won the lottery and burying most of your lump sum in your back yard. The spot where you buried your treasure is 432 feet from your back door. If you made a map where

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Question 830585: You have just won the lottery and burying most of your lump sum in your back yard. The spot where you buried your treasure is 432 feet from your back door. If you made a map where 1 inch = 75 feet, how many inches on the map would represent the 432 feet actual distance?
Answer by JulietG(1812) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hopefully you converted that lottery money into gold first! Otherwise, by the time you dig it up, it might be close to worthless ;-).
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If 75 feet is represented by 1 inch, how many inches represent 432?
For this problem, you simply divide.
432/75 = 5.76