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Carol makes a scale drawing of her school using a scale of 8cm:12m. If the length of the playground on the scale drawing is 12.4 cm, what is the actual length of the playground?…

Carol makes a scale drawing of her school using a scale of 8cm:12m. If the length of the playground on the scale drawing is 12.4 cm, what is the actual length of the playground?…
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Carol makes a scale drawing of her school using a scale of 8cm:12m. If the length of the playground on the scale drawing is 12.4 cm, what is the actual length of the playground?

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A scale of 8cm:12cm would be a scale of 2/3. since this is the case, we can divide the scale drawing of the playground by the scale factor to get the length of the actual playground

12.4/0.6666 = 18.6

The answer is 18.6
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