A triangle has an area of 30 cm². The base and height are scaled by a factor of 4. What is the area of the resulting triangle?

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Richard
Mar 13, 2018

#480 cm^2#

Explanation:

Just like in the previous example, this ratio is only in the one-dimensional sense. To bring it to the two-dimensional sense, raise the one-dimensional scale factor by a power of #2#. When you do this, you get a two-dimensional scale factor of 16. Now, just multiply the area by the two-dimensional scale factor, and you will get #480 cm^2#. Hope this helps.

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