SOLUTION: A painter scaled down the size of a painting to a height of 0.6m. Determine the new width of the painting if the original dimension were 1.7 m tall and 3.5 m wide?

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Question 1133721: A painter scaled down the size of a painting to a height of 0.6m. Determine the new width of the painting if the original dimension were 1.7 m tall and 3.5 m wide?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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Simply set up a proportion.