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396 C HAPTE R 5 I RATIO, PROPORTION, AND MEASUREMENT

Objectives Mixed Practice Solve. Remember to insert units when writing your answers.
For Exercises 73 through 82, complete the charts. See Examples 1 through 14.

Yards Feet Inches

73. Chrysler Building in New York City 1046

74. 4-story building 792

75. Python length 35

76. Ostrich height 108

Complete the chart.

Meters Millimeters Kilometers Centimeters
77. Length of elephant 5

78. Height of grizzly bear 3
79. Tennis ball diameter 6.5
80. Golf ball diameter 4.6

81. Distance from London to Paris 342
82. Distance from Houston to Dallas 396

A massive structure called Crazy Horse is currently being carved into the Black Hills about 8 miles from Mt. Rushmore.
Use the dimensions in the photo for Exercises 83 and 84.

641 feet 83. The total width of the Crazy Horse carving is
641 feet. Convert this width to
a. yards

b. inches

84. The total height of the Crazy Horse carving is
563 feet
563 feet. Convert this height to
a. yards

b. inches

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85. The National Zoo maintains a small patch of 86. While exploring in the Mariana Trench, a submarine
bamboo, which it grows as a food supply for its probe was lowered to a point 1 mile 1400 feet below
pandas.Two weeks ago, the bamboo was 6 ft 10 in. the ocean’s surface. Later it was lowered an additional
tall. Since then, the bamboo has grown 3 ft 8 in. 1 mile 4000 feet below this point. How far was the
How tall is the bamboo now? probe below the surface of the Pacific?