Homework Help: geometry

Posted by myles on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 10:34am.

Can someone help? Your make a scale drawing of a tree using the scale 5 in. =27 ft. If the tree is 67.5 ft tall, how tall is the scale drawing?

geometry - Ms. Sue, Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 12:01pm
One way to solve this is use a proportion. Cross multiply and solve for x.

5/27 = x/67.5
geometry - Anonymous, Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
Thank you

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