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CELL PHONES A Cell phone company is going to build three new towers in a nearby city. The city council has
released s map that shows where the towers will be built. On the map, the distance between towers A and B is 2
centimeters, the distance between towers B and C 3 centimeters, and the distance between towers A and C is 4
centimeters. A technician needs to visit the stes of the three towers, and he has outlined his travel route between
them on a map. The polygon formed by his travel route on the map will be similar to the polygon formed by the
technicians he drives to the three towers. If the actual distance between tower Band tower C is 600 meters, how
for was the technican have to travel to visit all three cell phone towers?

Answer 1

Distance between A ----> B : 2 cm

B ---> C: 3 cm : 600 meters

A----> C: 4 cm

3:600 meters scaled

So its 200 meters per every 1 cm!

From A to B : 400 meters

From B to C : 600 meters

Frok C to A: 800 meters

Therefore we sum 400+600+800= 1800 meters