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A rotating wind turbine has a diameter of 185 feet in the circumference is about 580 feet. It’s smaller model of the turbine has a circumference of about 10 feet what will the diameter of the model Be?

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ross-multiplication.

circumference divided by the diameter

10/x = 580/185

10x185=1850

1850/580=3.189
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