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Here's your shmoopy question du jour...

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Leslie can make free throws all day from 1.5 cm away.

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Unfortunately for her, this diagram of a basketball court is not life size.

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A centimeter in the diagram is equivalent to 120 inches. 

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If the distance from the free throw line to the front of the rim of the basket is

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1.5 cm in the diagram, how far is this distance in real life?

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And here are the potential answers...

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OK, this question takes the standard conversion question one step further --

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we have to convert drawing size... into two points.

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Under pressure. Since the answers are all in feet, the only

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thing we care about is feet...

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...so since the question gives us that 1 centimeter is 120 INCHES...

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...we have to just rethink it a bit so that 1 centimeter equals 10 feet.

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Because there are 12 inches in a foot... or 120 inches in ten of 'em.

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So to get the free throw distance we take 1.5 and multiply it by 10 feet...

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which gets us 15 feet.

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And the answer is C.

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