Please help me with a math task

Question

So the task is:

A clothing company wants to print the face of the Statue of Liberty on a T-shirt. The length of the face from the top of the forehead to the chin is 17 feet, and the width of the face is 10 feet. Given that a medium-sized T-shirt has a length of 29 inches and a width of 20 inches, what dimensions of the face are needed to produce a scaled version that will fit on the T-shirt?

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Answer 1

The key to this question is knowing the ration of the dimensions. We know that the length is 17 feet and the width is 10 feet. This gives us a ratio of length to width: L / W = 17' / 10' = 1.7. If we want to scale down to dimensions that will fit on a 29" x 20" t-shirt we can simply divide the length by the ratio: 29" / 1.7 ≈ 17.06. This is the maximum height and width (assuming you want to keep the same ratio) that can fit on the t-shirt. If you increase the width any more, the image will not fit on the t-shirt in terms of height.