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Measurement and Geometry: Drill Set 2, Problem 1. How far is this distance in real life?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoopy question du jour...
- 00:05
Leslie can make free throws all day from 1.5 cm away.
- 00:11
Unfortunately for her, this diagram of a basketball court is not life size.
- 00:16
A centimeter in the diagram is equivalent to 120 inches.
- 00:21
If the distance from the free throw line to the front of the rim of the basket is
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- 00:25
1.5 cm in the diagram, how far is this distance in real life?
- 00:31
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:36
OK, this question takes the standard conversion question one step further --
- 00:41
we have to convert drawing size... into two points.
- 00:44
Under pressure. Since the answers are all in feet, the only
- 00:48
thing we care about is feet...
- 00:50
...so since the question gives us that 1 centimeter is 120 INCHES...
- 00:54
...we have to just rethink it a bit so that 1 centimeter equals 10 feet.
- 00:59
Because there are 12 inches in a foot... or 120 inches in ten of 'em.
- 01:05
So to get the free throw distance we take 1.5 and multiply it by 10 feet...
- 01:10
which gets us 15 feet.
- 01:12
And the answer is C.
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