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LeeJuan swims in a pool that is similar to an olympic sized pool. LeeJuans pool is 30 meters long by 8 meters wide the length of olympic size pool is 50 meters. To the nearest meter what is the width of an olympic sized pool?

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as they are similar, we have that

[tex]\frac{50}{30}=\frac{w}{8}\rightarrow8\cdot\frac{5}{3}=w=\frac{40}{3}\approx13[/tex]

so the width of the olympic sized pool is 13m

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