SOLUTION: Michael bought a 1:45 scale model of a sports car. The length of the model is 85 mm. How long is the actual car? Is this saying that 1 mm on the scale model is 45 mm on the actu

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Question 656524: Michael bought a 1:45 scale model of a sports car. The length of the model is 85 mm. How long is the actual car?
Is this saying that 1 mm on the scale model is 45 mm on the actual car. So is the length of the car 45mm times 85 mm? I am having problems seeing a car in mm.
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Michael bought a 1:45 scale model of a sports car.
The length of the model is 85 mm. How long is the actual car?
Is this saying that 1 mm on the scale model is 45 mm on the actual car.
So is the length of the car 45mm times 85 mm? I am having problems seeing a car in mm.
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It is. 45 * 85 = 3825 mm, convert that to meters if you want
3825/1000 = 3.825 meters is the length of the actual car