The diagram represents a triangle that is reduced by a scale factor of 0.4. A rectangle has a base of 6 inches and a height of 2 inches.

What is the height of the original triangle?
0.8 inches
2.4 inches
5 inches
8 inches

the answer would be 8.

Step-by-step explanation:

If you look at the reduced triangle, the height is 2. Therefore you would have to multiply by 4 instead of 0.4 even if the scale factor is 0.4. The reason is, you are enlarging the triangle to find the bigger triangle. If you did 0.4 times 2 you would get 0.8. But that wouldn’t make any sense if you said that that was the height of the ENLARGED triangle.

answer: 5 17/33 % (to the tenth)

step-by-step explanation:

he guessed: 34.5 pounds

actual weight is 32.7

there for he is off:

34.5 -32.7 = 1.8

32.7 is the 100%

1.8 represents %? of 32.7

therefore:

32.7   - 100%

1.8     -     x%

x= 1.8*100%/32.7% = 18*100%/327%

x=1800%/327%   = (5 165/327)%

to the tenth:

5 17/33 %