Question

Leah's house has a media room with a large flat screen TV to watch movies. The media room TV has a width of 8 feet and a height of 4.5 feet.


The flat screen TV in Leah's living room has a height of 36 inches and has the same width to height ratio as the media room TV. What is the width of the living room TV?

*Set up a proportion and cross multiply to solve for x!

width of media TV width of living room TV
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height of media TV height of living room TV


A. 80 inches
B. 20 inches
C. 64 inches
D. 48 inches