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Express the ratio 12 inches to 2 yards in simplest form. |
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In a recipe, 3 cups of fruit serves 5 people. How many cups of fruit would serve 100 people? |
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60 cups |
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70 cups |
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90 cups |
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80 cups |
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A pentagon is a polygon with five sides. If pentagons ABCDE and HIJKL are similar, find the length of side JK. |
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12 m |
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3 m |
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2 m |
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1.5 m |
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Assume the triangles are similar. What is the value of x? |
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3.2 |
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20 |
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5 |
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10 |
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In a movie, a child who was 32 inches tall was ''blown up'' to be 160 feet tall. Find the scale needed for the props in the movie. |
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1:6 |
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1:160 |
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1:60 |
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1:10 |
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In the figure, the green figure is a dilation of the blue figure. Find the scale factor. |
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The process of enlarging or reducing an image is called a(n) |
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image |
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scale factor |
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dilation |
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illusion |
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8. |
Write a ratio in simplest form. number of shaded squares: total number of squares. |
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Kim is standing next to a tree. The tree has a shadow that is 3 m long. Kim, who is 1.3 m tall, has a shadow that is 0.8 m long. How tall is the tree? |
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1.846 m |
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4.875 m |
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3.5 m |
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3.972 m |
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The distance between two cities is 115 miles. If a map has a scale of 1 inch = 75 miles, how far apart are the cities on the map? |
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1 inches |
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1 inches |
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1 inches |
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1 inches |
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The owner of a house graphed the value of her home starting in 1997. Find the rate of change in value from 2000 to 2003. |
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$1,500 per year |
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$4,500 per year |
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$500 per year |
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$1,000 per year |
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The graph shows the change in the number of poodles registered with the American Kennel Club. Find the rate of change in number of poodles registered from 2000 to 2002. |
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-4,500 poodles per year |
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-3,000 poodles per year |
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-12,000 poodles per year |
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-6,000 poodles per year |
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The graph shows the fees charged by a plumber. Interpret the meaning of the slope as a rate of change. |
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The plumber charges $80 for each job. |
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The plumber charges $40 for each job. |
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The plumber charges $80 for each hour worked. |
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The plumber charges $40 for each hour worked. |
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Kata has a part time job. The graph shows the amount she makes. Interpret the meaning of the slope as a rate of change. |
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Kata earns $30 for her work. |
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Kata earns $10 for her work. |
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Kata earns $10 per hour. |
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Kata earns $30 per hour. |
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Which pair of ratios forms a proportion? |
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Triangle ABC  DEF. Each side of ABC is 1 times longer than the corresponding sides of DEF. If the perimeter of ABC is 36 centimeters, what is the perimeter of DEF? |
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18 centimeters |
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54 centimeters |
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24 centimeters |
D. |
12 centimeters |
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