Kyra was building a bed for her dollhouse. She used her bed, which is 4 feet * 5 feet, as a guide. She scaled down the dimensions of her bed by a factor 1 over 5. What are the dimensions of the model bed she built?

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Beckham Decker

Mathematics

2 November, 10:53

Kyra was building a bed for her dollhouse. She used her bed, which is 4 feet * 5 feet, as a guide. She scaled down the dimensions of her bed by a factor 1 over 5. What are the dimensions of the model bed she built?

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Brenton Hobbs · Answer 1

1/5 is a 20% reduction. So that leaves 80%

80% of 4 is3.2 ft (.8 x 4) and 80% of 5 is4 ft (.8 x 5)

If you prefer inches, 80% of 48" = 38.4" and 80% of 60 = 48"