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If a rug is 6 feet wide by 8 feet long and suki makes a diagram that is 1 1/3 feet long how many inches should its width be

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The length in the diagram is 4/3 feet.
(4/3)/8=w/6 where w is the width.
So 4/(3×8)=w/6.
1/6=w/6 so w=1 foot or 12 inches.
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