Question

the accompanying diagram shows that the length of a pencil from its eraser to its tip is 7 units and that eraser is 1.5 units wide the picture was placed on a photocopy machine and reduced to 66 2/3%. what is the new size of the pencil

Answer 1

width = 1 units

Length= 4 2/3 units

Explanation:

Hi, to answer this question, first, we have to multiply the original width of the pencil by the percent decrease in decimal form (divided by 100).

1.5 x ([66 2/3] /100) =1.5 ([2/3]/100) =1 unit

Same process for the length:

7 x ([66 2/3] /100) =7 ([2/3]/100)= 4 2/3 unit

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