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A student made a model of a building. The model was 3 feet high and 10 feet wide. If the actual building is 700 feet wide, how tall is the building?​

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Answer:

210 feet

Explanation:

User JRodDynamite
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210 feet
First you set up a porportion if you know the height of the model is 3 feet and the width is 10 feet then you can set up a porportion for the actual building in the same order. 3/10=x/700. Then you cross multiply
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