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Amerada Hess company wants to make an oil container tank. Engineers are shown a sample tank. which is 1 meter in height, and they are told that the new tank should look similar to the sample. If the sample tank is 1/25 the size of the original tank. what is the height of the original tank?

A. 25m
B. 20m
C. 10m
D. 1m

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Since the sample is 1/25 the size and the size of the sample is 1m then:

[tex]1 = \frac{1}{25} x[/tex]

x is the height of our container. we need to move 1/25 to the other side so we multiply both sides of the equation by 25.

[tex]25 \times 1 = \frac{1}{25} x \times 25[/tex]

On the right side of the equation, 1/25 cancels out with 25 since:

[tex] \frac{1}{25} \times 25 = 1[/tex]

so we are left with the 25 x 1 on the left:

[tex]25 = x[/tex]

so the container is 25m; C.

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