A museum built a scale model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur skeleton, where 1 centimeter in the model is equivalent to 15 centimeters of the actual skeleton. If the length of the fibula bone of the actual skeleton is 100 centimeters, what is the length, to the nearest tenth of a centimeter, of the fibula bone of the model?

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We can set a simple proportion comparing the ratio of the model to that of the actual skeleton.

$$ \frac{\text{length of model}}{\text{length of actual skeleton}} $$ $$ \frac{1}{15} = \frac{x}{100} \tag*{\tiny where \(x\) is the length of fibula} $$ $$ x=\frac{100}{15} $$ $$ x\approx \boxed{6.7} $$