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an image of a book shown on a website is 2.5 in wide and 5 in tall on a computer monitor the actual book is 7.5 in wide what is the scale being used for the image

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1:3

Step-by-step explanation:

The width of both the computer and real version are given.

In computer, the width of the book is 2.5 inches

Really, the width of the book is 7.5 inches.

To find the scale, we simply find how many times one number is of the other.

Just see!

if we multiply 2.5 by 3, we get 7.5 inches.

So,

Real life book is 3 times than the computer version.

Or, we can say

The computer version is 1/3rd of the real version.

The scale is 1:3

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