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The Eiffel Tower in France is approximately 300 meters tall. Jeremy is making a model of this famous landmark. His scale is 0.6 cm = 3 meters. How tall should his model be?

User Hoang Ha
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Answer: 60 cm.

Explanation:

We can use a ratio table to solve this. We know that 0.6 cm is the same as 3 meters. Yet, how many cm represent 300 meters? So far, we can set up over ratio table like this.

CM: 0.6, ?

M: 3, 300

What did we have to multiply to 3 to get to 300? 100. What we do to one area of the ratio table, we must do the same to the other. We have to multiply 0.6 by 100.

0.6 x 100 = 60

His model has to be 60 cm tall.

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