Your company has 1486 employees in the maintenance department and 1985 employees in the operations department. about how many employees are there in both departments combined? estimate the total number by rounding to the nearest 1000.

-7/8

step-by-step explanation:

instead of subtracting you add the -6/8 and -1/8

option a is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure:

by definition of proportions, we have