A model boat has a scale of 1 to 12. If the actual boat is 36 feet long, how many inches long is the model boat?
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The answer, when rounded to the nearest tenth is 19.2
First you can get rid of the decimals by multiplying both numbers by 100, this just makes the whole problem easier. Now all that needs to be done is long division:
(In my work I didn’t realize that it said round to the nearest tenth until I had already gotten past what I needed to find)
First you can get rid of the decimals by multiplying both numbers by 100, this just makes the whole problem easier. Now all that needs to be done is long division:
(In my work I didn’t realize that it said round to the nearest tenth until I had already gotten past what I needed to find)