A movie director is creating a scale model of the Empire State Building to use in a scene. The Empire State Building is 1250 feet tall. a) If the model is 100 inches tall, what is the scale of the model? b) How many feet tall would the model be if the director uses a scale factor of 1:30. feet inches

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A movie director is creating a scale model of the Empire State Building to use in a scene. The
Empire State Building is 1250 feet tall.
a) If the model is 100 inches tall, what is the scale of the model?
b) How many feet tall would the model be if the director uses a scale factor of 1:30.
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