(havn’t actually did any math, but this is just process of elemination.)
{I’m just looking at the end of these, because the start is all the same}
if the number with the (perenthese) is below 1, it is a decreas, and the problem says it’s increasing by 5%. (1.5) Is equal to 50% increase so that means your answer would be (1.05) Because anything times 1 is the larger number, but when u add that 0.5, it’s raising the number up by 5%.
Ounces are typically used to measure liquid, so I would discourage choosing the top two. And, hopefully you know by now that an orange does not weigh 8 pounds.
It is not possible for the area to change with a translation because translations are simply movements. They are not changing anything about the object's form, like something such as scaling does.