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You make a scale drawing of a tree using the scale 5 inches.=27feers. If the tree is 67.5 feet tall how tall is the scale drawing?

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67.5/27=2.5 2.5x5=12inches
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12.5

I used a proportion ( 5/27= x/67.5) and solved for x
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