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A grid is shown with a rectangle drawn on it. The rectangle is 8 units long and 4 units wide, labeled with 8 and 4 respectively.
Scale: 1 box = 3 inches
Convert this scale drawing of a bureau drawer so that it has a scale of 1 box = 6 inches. The length in the scale drawing shown is 8 boxes. What will be the length in boxes of the new scale drawing?
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Since the original scale is 1 box = 3 inches, we need to double the length of the scale drawing, which means we need to double the number of boxes.
8 boxes x 2 = <<8*2=16>>16 boxes
Therefore, the length in boxes of the new scale drawing will be 16 boxes.