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May somebody help me solve this so I can do it for the rest please?

May somebody help me solve this so I can do it for the rest please?-example-1
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Answer:

1 : 6

Explanation:

The given scale factor is ...

2 in : 1 ft

To express this as a ratio of pure numbers (without units), the units must be the same on either side of the colon (:). Here, we can make that happen by changing 1 ft to its equal in inches: 12 inches.

2 in : 1 ft = 2 in : 12 in = 2 : 12 = 1 : 6

We generally like to have the scale factor reduced to lowest terms, so we want to remove any common factors from the numbers.

The scale factor of 2 in to 1 foot is 1 : 6.

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