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An adult mamenchisaurus dinosaur was about 24 feet tall . if a toy model of the dinosaur is made to the scale of 1 inch to 9 inches , how tall will the toy dinosaur be

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The height of the toy dinosaur will be 32 inches.

What is scaling?

In mathematics scaling is defined as the enlarging or contracting of the size of an object by reducing or increasing the units of the measurements of the object.

Given that:-

An adult mamenchisaurus dinosaur was about 24 feet tall. if a toy model of the dinosaur is made to the scale of 1 inch to 9 inches.

The new height of the dinosaur will be calculated as:-

We know that the size of the dinosaur is scaled as 9 inches to 1 inch the actual height of the dinosaur is 24 feet so the scaled height will be:-

Actual height = 24 ft = 24 x 12 = 288 inches

9 inches  → 1 inch

288 inches  → 288 / 9 = 32 inches.

Therefore the height of the toy dinosaur will be 32 inches.

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