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15 For a school project, Leo is making a model of the Statue of Liberty. He is using a scale of2 cm : 3 m. The Statue of Liberty is 93 meters tall. How tall is Leo's model?

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Leo is making a statue. He wants to use 2cm to represent 3m for the statue because it will be difficult making a whole of 93 meters. So to minimize the stress and cost, he dicided to use 2cm for each 3m of the statue of liberty.

Now to find how tall Leo's statue would be, we simply compare the ratios.

That is the measurement of the statue to that of Leo's


\frac{93\text{ m}}{3\text{ m }}\text{ = }\frac{x}{2\operatorname{cm}}

This will help you to determine Leo's statue. Ratio for the staue = Ratio for that of Leo's measurement


\begin{gathered} \frac{93\text{ m}}{3\text{ m }}\text{ = }\frac{x}{2\operatorname{cm}} \\ \text{cross multiplying } \\ 3x\text{ = 93}*2 \\ 3x\text{ = 186 } \\ x\text{ = }(186)/(3) \\ \\ x\text{ = 62 cm} \end{gathered}

Therefore Leo's model would be 62 cm tall

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