Question

Jamal is making two paintings using canvases that are similar rectangles. The length of the smaller canvas is 3 ft and the width is 5 ft.

What is the length of the larger canvas if the width is 10 ft?

Answer 1

write proportions
\(\dfrac{3}{5}=\dfrac{x}{10}\)
what times 5 gives you 10?

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

so 3 x 2 = 6
so 6 is the length