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A wheel in this scale drawing is 4 cm wide. The ratio of the drawing is 1:14. How wide is the actual wheel in cm?

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1:14 means that for every 1 cm it is drawn at it is actually 14 cm

so multiply 4 x 14 = 56

it is actually 56 cm wide

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