Question

A square has side length of 7.3 in. If the area is multiplied by 1/9, what happens to the perimeter. Please help!

Answer 1

Note that if the area of any figure is multiplied by a factor of a.

The perimeter will be multiplied by √a

From the problem, the are of the square is multiplied by 1/9, so we need to get the square root of that factor to get the factor for the perimeter.

`\sqrt[]{(1)/(9)}=(1)/(3)`

Therefore, the answer is C. multiplied by 1/3