SOLUTION: Lana's family is planning a rectangular garden. They make a scale diagram of the garden using a scale of 1 inch to 0.5 meter. If the length of the scale diagram is 24 inches, and i

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Question 1004331: Lana's family is planning a rectangular garden. They make a scale diagram of the garden using a scale of 1 inch to 0.5 meter. If the length of the scale diagram is 24 inches, and its width is 16 inches, what is the perimeter of the actual garden?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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You could set up a proportion
1%2F.5+=+24%2FL+=+16%2FW
so that
L = 12 m and W = 8 m