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You have prize Lester measured a picnic area near the river and made a scale drawing. The scale of the drawing was 1 inch : 2 yards. The picnic area is 49 inches in the drawing. How wide is the actual
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Lester measured a picnic area near the river and made a scale drawing. The scale of the
drawing was 1 inch : 2 yards. The picnic area is 49 inches in the drawing. How wide is the
actual picnic area?
yards

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1 inch : 2 yards can be written as 1 over 2. Then we write 49 (inches) over x, the number of yards we don’t know. Then we cross-multiply.

1/2 = 49/x
x = 49 • 2
x = 98 yards
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