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Babatunde draws a drinking glass on graph paper using the scale shown below. The glass has a length of 888 units in the drawing.

A drinking glass on graph paper. An 8-unit long line is labeled, "height." A 2-unit long scale is labeled, "2.5 centimeters."
What is the height, in \text{cm}cmstart text, c, m, end text, of the actual glass?

User Vedha Peri
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10 cm

The glass is 8 units. 2 units = 2.5 cm. Multiply 8 by 2.5 and divide it by 2, and you get 10 cm

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