Question

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Tomas is making the last few items for the model he is creating of his backyard. He started the project by measuring the backyard fence to be two hundred forty feet wide. The backyard fence measures only fourteen inches on his scale model. To keep the model in proportion to the backyard, how long should a twenty-four-foot-long swing set measure?

Answer 1

fence’s actual width over fence’s model width equals swing set’s actual width over swing set’s model width
x over two hundred forty equals fourteen over twenty-four
swing set’s model width over fence’s actual width equals swing set’s actual width over fence’s model width
fence’s actual width over swing set’s model width equals swing set’s actual width over swing set’s model width