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A T-shirt comes in different sizes. A large T-shirt is 27.5 in. wide and 29.5 in. long. If a small youth T-shirt is 15.5 in. wide, what is its length to the nearest inch if it is similar to the large t-shirt? Show your work or explain your process.

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To find the length of the small youth T-shirt, we can set up a proportion comparing the width to the length of the large T-shirt and the width to the unknown length of the small youth T-shirt.

Let x be the length of the small youth T-shirt.

27.5 in / 29.5 in = 15.5 in / x

Cross multiply to solve for x:

27.5 * x = 15.5 * 29.5

27.5x = 458.25

x = 458.25 / 27.5

x ≈ 16.65

Therefore, the length of the small youth T-shirt is approximately 16.65 inches when rounded to the nearest inch.