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While planning a hiking trip, you examine a map of the trail you are going on hike. The scale on the map shows that 2 inches represents 3 miles.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

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ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter6: Ratio, Proportion, And Probability

Section6.6: Scale Drawings

Problem 2C

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