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A rectangle shows a length measuring 20 inches and width measuring 12 inches.

Spencer draws a rectangle to represent the size of the city block where he lives. The rectangle is labeled in inches. Spencer decides he wants to make a smaller scale drawing of the rectangle in which the width is just 1.5 inches long. What will be the length of the rectangle in Spencer's new scale drawing? Write your answer in decimal form.

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Scale factor = 1.5 / 12 = 0.125. New length = 20 × 0.125 = 2.5 inches.