An engineer is designing a component for a new weather satellite. The scale of the drawing is 1 cm : 60 in. If the actual length of the component is 12.5 feet, what is the length of the component in the drawing?

The length of the component in the drawing is 2.5 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

The scale of the drawing is 1 cm : 60 in

That means

1 cm in the drawing represent 60 in in the actual

so

Using proportion

Find out the the length of the component in the drawing, if the actual length of the component is 12.5 feet

Remember that

so

the answer is 0.3175 hope that you ^w^

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step-by-step explanation:

the multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. for the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. for example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth 1/5 or 0.2, and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4.