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When Mai walks from her new apartment to school and then back home again, her path creates a rectangle. The rectangle measures `400` m in length and `200` m in width. Mai wants to create a scale drawing of this rectangle. Using a scale of `1` cm to `40` m, what would be the length of the rectangle on the scale drawing?

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No this is way to long
User Josephine Moeller
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Answer:

10 cm

Explanation:

Original measures: 400 m and 200 m

Scale: 1 cm = 40 m

Use proportions.

Length:

1 cm / 40 m = x / 400 m

40 m × x = 400 m × 1 cm

40x = 400 cm

x = 10 cm

length = 10 cm

Answer: 10 cm

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