Elijah drew a scale drawing of a swimming pool. The scale of the drawing was
1 centimeter: 3 meters. The pool is 10
centimeters long in the drawing. How long is the
actual pool?

30 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

when converting from scale to actual drawing:

find a way of removing the cm by

10cm × (3m/1cm)

look the cm cancels out

10×3m=30m

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step-by-step explanation:

geometry: triangles

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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