Question

A triangular piece of rubber is stretched equally on all three sides (without distorting or changing its shape) such that the new sides are 2 times the length of the original sides. How does the area of the triangle change?

Answer 1

The area increases to 2 times the original value. is this correct

Answer 2

that's incorrect

Answer 3

it might help to draw out an example

say you have this original triangle

Answer 4

ok is it increases @ 4 times or 8 times

Answer 5

what is the area of this triangle?

Answer 6

6

Answer 7

now let's double each dimension