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Nigel drew a parallelogram with a base length of 6 3/4 inches and a height of 2 5/8 inches. Krista made a scale drawing of Nigel's parallelogram using a scale factor of 1/3 .

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Answer: Krista's drawing would have a base length of 2 and 1/4 inches and a height of 7/8 inches

Step-by-step explanation: First you do 6 divided by 3 which is 2 then you make 3/4 in twelfths and you get 3/12, then you simplify that into 1/4. Then

you combine those and get a base length of 2 and 1/4 inches.

Next, you do 2 and 5/8 divided by 3. Since 3 is less than 2 your answer would have to be less than 1. What i would do is make 2 and 5/8 into a fraction, which would be 21/8. then to make it easiest you multiply that by 1/3. which would equal 21/24. and then you simplify by dividing that by 3. Which would give you 7/8, which would give you your answer.

So the final answer would be a base length of 2 and 1/4 inches and a height of 7/8 inches.

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