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If a T-shirt shrinks, is it a scale model of its original shape before it was washed?

Are enlargements of pictures always scale models of the original?

Architects use scale models to help determine weight loads and structural strength.

Do different-sized boxes of the same breakfast cereal have the same length-to-width ratios?

 


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