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The length of the length of a typical soap Box Derby car is 1.2 meters your modelDerby car is 14 cmeters long to the nearest centimetre how tall should you model driver Be in order to represent a 1.67 meter tall driver

User Jordan Ell
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Answer:

19.5 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

We can use the proportion ...

driver height / car height = h/(14 cm) = (1.67 m)/(1.2 m)

h = (14 cm)(1.67/1.2) ≈ 19.5 cm

The model driver should be 19.5 cm tall.

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