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The Eiffel Tower is about 301 meters tall. Cooper is making a scale model of it using the scale 750 meters : 1 meter. To the nearest tenth of a meter, what will be the height of the scale model? Enter your answer in the box.

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Answer: x = 0.4

Step-by-step explanation: 750 / 1 = 301 / x

The value of x is below

x = 301 / 750

x = 0.4

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In this item we let x be teh height of hte scale model of the Eiffel tower then us the concept of ratio and proportion to determine its value. That is,

750 / 1 = 301 / x

The value of x is calculated as below.

x = 301 / 750
Simplifying,
x = 0.4
Hence, the answer to this item is 0.4 meters.
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