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Consider two people where one person is 20​% taller than the other but proportioned in exactly the same way.​ (That is, the taller person looks like a larger version of the shorter​ person.) Suppose the shorter person has a 36​-inch waist. What size is the taller​ person's waist?

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Answer:43.2inStep-by-step explanation:If the two people are equally proportional, then knowing the size of the waist of one of them, we gonna we be able to know the other's wais size, by the relation.36in*(1*20%) = 36in*1.2 = 43.2in