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Here's your shmoopy question du jour...

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The drawing of a tree has a scale of 1 cm = 4 ft as shown below. 

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What is the actual height of the tree in feet?

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Here are the potential answers...

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This question is a standard conversion question -- can we translate centimeters into American?

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Er... uh... feet.

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Since the answers are all in feet, we don't care about inches...

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...but that could be a curveball these test making people throw your way.

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So... we're told that 1 centimeter equals 4 feet -- which sets up a ratio.

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1 is to 4 as 6.75 is to... what?

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Well, just multiply 6.75 by 4 and we get the answer: 27.

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So it's D.

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