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Jill was looking at a picture of herself and 3 friends. She measured the height of her image as 10 centimeters. If Jill is actually 60 inches tall, which equation can she use to find h, the actual height in inches, of one of her friends who is c centimeters tall in the picture?

User Nedzad G
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Answer:

1/6 c

Explanation:

lets call the height x :

10/60 = h/x

x = 1/6 h

which is 1/6 c

User KF Lin
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