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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the department of public health

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which gives this problem a solid b rating All right

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we'll check out this day Lucious drew a scale map

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of his home his work place and his favorite restaurant

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on a napkin on the napkin The distance between his

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home his work place is seven centimeters and the distance

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between his home and his favorite restaurant is two centimeters

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The actual distance between his home and his work place

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is thirty five kilometres All right lucious favorite restaurant is

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how many kilometers from his home huh All right Here

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the potential answer All right so what's this question asking

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well were given a pretty little diagram Here was a

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short paragraph of explanation and we need to use all

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that stuff to determine how far lucious has to travel

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from home to get his weekly sushi fixed All right

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well let's break down the information we're given First we're

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told that this drawing is to scale which doesn't mean

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lucious home is actually seven centimeters from work Too bad

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because that would be one heck of a commute but

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it does mean that there is a direct correlation between

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the itty bitty distances on a napkin app and the

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real life distances they represent were given that the actual

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distance from lucious home to work is thirty five kilometres

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Well that's represented by seven centimetres on the napkin then

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seven centimeters in napkin land equals thirty five kilometres Well

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you simplify that a bit further and we divide both

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sides by seven and it gets us that one centimeter

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in napkin land equals five kilometers Okay so now because

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we know the entire drawing is scale we can apply

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that same ratio to the distance between lucious home and

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favorite restaurant Well it's two centimeters on the map and

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if one centimeter equals five kilometers well than in real

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life the restaurant must be twice that or ten kilometers

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from age's Home of answer is that and we don't

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know how much longer it's going to be his favorite

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restaurant because they've been getting pretty upset with him for 00:02:08.07 --> [endTime] stealing all their little cocktail napkin

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