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For a school project, Sarah plans to build a scale model of an Egyptian pyramid. She will be using a scale of: 1 cm = 5 meters.

If the pyramid is 140 meters tall, how tall will her model pyramid be?
A.
56 centimeters
B.
28 centimeters
C.
32 centimeters
D.
28 meters

User Suki
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B .28cm

Explanation:

if 1cm=5m

then,140=×

1cm=5cm

cross multiply to get;

140÷5=28(cm)

=28cm

User Reza Shayestehpour
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Answer:

B

Explanation:

you divide 140 by 5 so 28 is the answer

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