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A landscape designer has a drawing of a flower bed that measures 6 by 9 inches. The owner wants the flower bed to be 5 by 7.5 feet. What is the scale factor the designer must use to install the new flower bed?

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first flowerbed=6 ×9
second bed= 5× 7.5

scale factor = 6to 5 and 9 to 7.5
scale factor is 1.2


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