Gino designed a garden for his rectangular backyard. The design he drew on paper is ten inches long. The length of his backyard is forty feet. If his drawing is to scale, and his backyard is twenty-eight feet wide, how many inches wide is his drawing? Write a proportion using words. Then, use the proportion to calculate the drawing width. Show your work.

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anonymous · Answer

10 inches to 40 feet. is about 4 feet every inch. so if there are 28 feet. 28/4 gets your answer