Question

the sides of the rectangle are inreased by a scale factor of 4. The perimeter of the smaller retangle is 20 cm. What is the perimeter of the larger rectangle?

Answer 1

The height of the smaller rectangle, let us say is 5
5 x 4 = 20
(multiply height of rectangle to scale factor)
the length is 4
4 x 4 = 16
(multiply length of rectangle to scale factor)

to find larger factor, divide smaller with larger
16/20 = 1/4

scale factor should be 1/4

multiply 20 with 4

perimeter of larger should be 80

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