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a museum has a wax sculpture of a historical village. the scale is 1.5:8. if the height of he hut in the sculpture is 5 feet, how tall was the original hut to the nearest whole foot?

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For scale problems, you can use a proportion.

1.5 sculpture size is to 8 real size as 5 ft sculpture size is to x real size.

1.5/8 = (5 ft)/x)

1.5x = 8 * 5 ft

1.5x = 40 ft

x = (40 ft)/1.5

x = 26.666... ft

The original is 27 ft
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