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The height of the house below is drawn to a scale of 1:300. What is the actual heightof the house? *height = 2 cm

The height of the house below is drawn to a scale of 1:300. What is the actual heightof-example-1
User Bart Czernicki
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A scale of 1:300 means that in every 1 cm in the drawing, the actual height would be 300 cm.

So, if the height of the house is 2cm, then it's actual height should be 2 x 300 = 600cm.

In meters, it is 6 meters.

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