Question

A customer wants you to enlarge a photo to 2 3/4 its current height. The photo’s current height is 3 /14 inches. What should its enlarged height be, in inches?

Answer 1

33/56 inches

Explanation:

2.75(3/14)=33/56

Answer 2

`8\frac { 1 5 } { 1 6 }` inches or 8.94 inches

Explanation:

We know that the current height of the photo is
`3(1)/(4)` inches and the customer wants it to be enlarged by a factor of
`2(3)/(4)` its current height.

`3\frac { 1 } { 4 } = 3.25`

`2 \frac { 3 } { 4 } = 2.75`

Multiplying this scale factor with the current height of photo to find the enlarged height.

Enlarged height =
`3.25 * 2.75 = 8(15)/(16)` inches or 8.94 inches