Given this figure, if you increase the height by a factor of 3, how much larger will the area be?
a) halved
b) doubled
c) increased by 2 units
d) tripled

please help ! the pic is below

Question

Given this figure, if you increase the height by a factor of 3, how much larger will the area be?
a) halved
b) doubled
c) increased by 2 units
d) tripled

please help ! the pic is below

anonymous · Answer

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shamil98 · Answer

area of a triangle is
1/2 bh
or bh/2

by a factor of 3 means multiplied by three
so if your base was 2
and your height was 3 now you have base 2 and height of 9

original area would be:
3, new area would be 9
so it is multiplied by 3 or tripled