A scale model of a building has a height of 18 inches and a length of 14 inches. The height of the real building is 360 feet. What is the length of the real building?

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A scale model of a building has a height of 18 inches and a length of 14 inches.

The height of the real building is 360 feet.

What is the length of the real building?

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the scale is times 20, because 360 divided by 18 equals 20, 20 times 14 = 280 when put to scale.

Your answer would be 280!

Ramakanth Putta answered Mar 6, 2019

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the answer is 280.
[18/14 and 360/x use cross products.

Hpn answered Mar 7, 2019

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