A prism with a volume of 360 yd³ is scaled down to a volume of 45 yd³. What is the scale factor? Enter your answer, as a decimal
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The answer is C:
Starting with the given formula for the area, A = 1/2hb, the first step is to isolate h by using the multiplicative inverse of b, which is on both sides of the equation:
The result will be:
The last step is to use the multiplicative inverse of , which is 2 or
to further isolate the variable <em>h </em>:
The formula for h will be:
which is the option C in your question.