Amy wants to enlarge a rectangle with sides 9 and 12 inches. If the shorter side of the new rectangle is 135 inches, how long will the longer side be?

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Ilya Khaprov · Answer 1 · 2021-02-27T06:43:10+0000

Answer: the longer side will be 180 inches.

Explanation:

We are given that the rectangle has the sides, 9 inches and 12 inches . This means that the shorter side is 9 inches.

It has to been enlarge, meaning that it has gotten bigger to 135 inches.

This also means that it was multiplied by a number to get 135.

So divide 135 by 9 to find the number it was multiplied by, and multiply that number by 12 to find the length of the longer side.

135 / 9 = 15

12 * 15 = 180

This means the larger side is 180 inches.