Question

Maci has a family photograph with a width of 4 in and a height of 6 in. She wants to enlarge the photograph so that its width is 10 in. what will the height of the enlarged photograph be

Answer 1

The answer is 15 in, simply setup a proportion and solve .. 4/10 = 6/x

Answer 2

15 inches

Explanation:

Given : Maci has a family photograph with a width of 4 in and a height of 6 in.

To Find : . She wants to enlarge the photograph so that its width is 10 in. what will the height of the enlarged photograph be

Solution :

Since width of the of the photo was 4 inches

After the enlargement the width becomes 10 inches

So, the scale factor for this enlargement =
`(10)/(4) =2.5`

Thus scale for the enlargement is 2.5

So enlargement of height will be done by using this scale

Since the height of the photo was 6 inches

So the height of the enlarged photo = 6 * 2.5 =15 inches

Thus the height of the enlarged photo is 15 inches