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a student uses a piece of string to measure the approximate distance between New York City and Los Angeles on the globe. She finds that it is about 12 in. She knows that the distance between New York and Los Angeles is about 3,000 miles. Enter the approximate scale of the globe.

a student uses a piece of string to measure the approximate distance between New York-example-1
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The Answer Is 250 I just did the test

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\begin{gathered} \text{Scale = }\frac{\text{distance on scale drawing (globe)}}{\text{Actual distance}} \\ \text{Scale = }\frac{12\text{ in}}{3000\text{ miles}} \\ \text{scale =}\frac{1\text{ in}}{250\text{ mi}} \end{gathered}

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