Arectangular room on a blueprint is 2 inches wide and 5 inches long. if the scale of the blueprint to the actual room is 1: 72, what is the width of the room? show work!

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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step-by-step explanation:

first you will have to convert 3/4 into a decimal

which is .75

then you will have to divide 1.5 by .75

which is 2

no you have to divide