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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop the question

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du jour The drawing of a tree has a scale

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of one santa mater equals four feet as shown below

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or what is the actual height of the tree in

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feet And here the potential answers and here's that causeway

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everything we know it's annoying This question is a standard

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conversion question and we translate centimetres into american our feet

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You know since the answers are all in feet we

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don't care about inches but that could be a curveball

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these test making people throw your way So we're told

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that one centimeter equals four feet which sets up a

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ratio One is toe four as six point seven Five

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is to what Well just multiply six point seven five

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by four and we get the answer Twenty seven twenty

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seven over one But twenty seven years All right so 00:01:03.812 --> [endTime] it's deep