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Shawna reduced the size of a rectangle to a height of 2 in. What is the new width if it was originally 24 in. wide and 12 in. tall?
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Shawna reduced the size of a rectangle to a height of 2 in. What is the new width if it was originally 24 in. wide and 12 in. tall?

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The width of the new rectangle is 1 in.
This is because the ration of height to width is 2:1 in this rectangle. This means that the width is half of the height. Now, all we have to do is divide the height (2) by two which makes 1.
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