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Suppose that one doll house uses the 1 inch scale, meaning that 1 inch on the doll house corresponds to 1/2 foot for life-sized objects. If the doll house is 108 inches wide, what is the width of the full-sized house that it's modeled after?
In inches and feet

User Haakon
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Answer: 54 feet or 648 inches.

Explanation:

1. You know that 1 inch on the doll house corresponds to 1/2 foot for life-sized objects. Therefore, you can calculate the width of the full-sized house that it's modeled after, as following:


width=(108in*1/2ft)/(1in)\\width=54ft

2. Then, the width in feet is: 54 feet.

3. And the width in inches is:

(Keeping on mind that 1 feet=12 inches)


(54ft*12in)/(1ft)=648in

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