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Brad measured a city park and made a scale drawing. He used the scale 8 centimeters : 3 meters. The soccer field is 160 centimeters wide in the drawing. How wide is the actual field?

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From the statement of the problem, we know that the relationship between real-world measures and drawing measures is:


\begin{gathered} \text{ drawing measure }\colon\text{ real-world measure ,} \\ 8\operatorname{cm}\colon3m\text{.} \end{gathered}

Now, to find how many meters are 160 cm in the drawing, we multiply the relation above by 160/8, so we have 160 cm at the left:


\begin{gathered} \text{ drawing measure }\colon\text{ real-world measure ,} \\ (160)/(8)\cdot8\operatorname{cm}\colon(160)/(8)\cdot3m, \\ 160\operatorname{cm}\colon20\cdot3m, \\ 160\operatorname{cm}\colon60m\text{.} \end{gathered}

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If the field measures 160 cm in the drawing, it measures 60 m in the real world.

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