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a rectangle has an area of 20 square feet. A similar rectangle has an area of 180 sq feet. What is the ratio of the area of these similar rectangles?

Is it 9 or maybe 3000??? Not sure. Please help....

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3000 ???

Are you just guessing wildly ???

what is 180 : 20 ?

It asked for the ratio
which cannot just be one number.
Ratios express the relationship between 2 or more items

so 180:20
= 9 : 1

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