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Dorothy is an architect, and she is building a scale model of a house that is 40 feet high, 56 feet long, and 88 feet wide. What should be the dimensions, in feet, of the model Dorothy is building if the ratio of the scale model to the house is 1:8 ?

Answer 1

Hi Laila, with a ration of 1:8, you would get a model that is 5 feet high, 8 feet long, and 11 feet wide. These measurements come from dividing each measurement of the original house by 8.

 

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