Question

Tim has a picture frame that is 30 cm long and 24 cm wide. He wants to make a picture frame that is similar in shape but is 18 cm long.

How wide should this second picture frame be?

cm

Answer 1

For the answer to the question above asking how wide should this second picture frame be?
The answer is

30/24 = 18/x 

Then just cross-multiply.

30x = 432 
x= 432/30 =So the answer to your question is 14.4

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