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Your boss sends you an email and explains that your fourth location is to Ellis Island to visit the Statue of Liberty. She emails you a scale drawing that one of the architectures in Spain created. On the scale drawing, a scale of 1/61 <—(a fraction) (inches to feet) was used, the height of the statue was 5 inches. How tall is the Statue of Liberty?

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Your boss sends you an email and explains that your fourth location is to Ellis Island to visit the Statue of Liberty She emails you a scale drawing that one of class=

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Answer:

305 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

We can name the actual height x so we get the equation [tex]\frac{1}{61}x = 5[/tex]. Multiply both sides by 61 to get [tex]x=305[/tex]. The answer would be feet because it wouldn't make sense if the statue of liberty was 305 inches