Elementary Geometry For College Students, 7e
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Author: Alexander, Daniel C.; Koeberlein, Geralyn M.
Publisher: Cengage,
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A standard movie poster is 27 inches wide and 40 inches tall Dingus Dinglewood works at the movie theater and wants to scale the poster down to be 30 inches tall he figures that since 40-10 = 30 she just needs to subtract 10 inches from the height and the width to scale the poster down help Dyngus see that this won't make the poster properly scaled explain to him how he could do this correctly what should the dimensions of the new poster be.
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