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prealgebra junior

Problem

An amusement park has a collection of scale models, with a ratio of , of buildings and other sights from around the country. The height of the United States Capitol is feet. What is the height in feet of its duplicate to the nearest whole number?
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Solution
You can see that since the ratio of real building's heights to the model building's height is . We also know that the U.S Capitol is feet in real life, so to find the height of the model, we divide by 20. That gives us which rounds to 14. Therefore, to the nearest whole number, the duplicate is .
Final answer
A