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Serge is making a map of a small town that is 5.7 miles long and 4.3 miles wide. If he is using the scale 1 inch = 0.5 miles, how large will his map be?

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

10th Edition

ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1RQ

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