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You have been asked to build a scale model of a restaurant out of bottle caps. The restaurant is 20 feet tall. Your scale is 2.4 cm : 1 foot. You are out of bottle caps, and decide to use popsicle sticks instead. You measure them, and they are 15.2 cm tall. how many popsicle sticks tall will your model be?

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Ok, so here you can do it a few different ways, and since I am the kind of person that does things to her logic, I will do it my way.

Ok, so here it is telling you that you are going to build a scale model of a building. Doesn’t matter what kind of building. In this case, it’s a restaurant. It tells you that your scale is 2.4
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