Question

Two prisms are similar and their ratio of similarity is 3:8.

Find the area of a base of the smaller prism if the area of a base of the larger prism is 23 square units.

Round to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

8.63 square units

Explanation:

you must set up a proportion.

3 x

- = -

8 23

after you set up that proportion, cross multiply to find x.

8x = 69

divide by 8

x = 8.625, rounded to 8.63