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A right angled triangle with sides of 3cm,4cm and 5cm is enlarged by by the scale factor 3. What is the area of the new triangle?
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A right angled triangle with sides of 3cm,4cm and 5cm is enlarged by by the scale factor 3. What is the area of the new triangle?
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Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
using the scale factor of 3, the new triangle is
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9, 12, 15
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the area of the new triangle is 9 * 12 / 2 = 54 cm^2
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the area of the original triangle is 3 * 4 / 2 = 6 cm^2
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