Question

Melinda has a photo that is 8 inches by 11 inches. She wants to enlarge its length to 44 inches. What should the width be?

Answer 1

8 44
----- = -----
11 x

8*x=484
/8 /8
=60.5

Answer 2

The other side should be

32 inches

Explanation:

This problem bothers on shapes

This one in particular is a rectangular shape

From the problem statement

The photo Frame is in portrait orientation

N/B please see the attached file for your reference

Now she want to enlarge the length

I.e the longer side from 11 to 44 inches

Now from 11 to 44 inches she multiplied the original length by 4

There the other side of original width 8 must be multiplied by 4 also

8*4= 32 inches