The diagram represents a triangle that is reduced by a scale factor of 0.4. A rectangle has a base of 6 inches and a height of 2 inches.

What is the height of the original triangle?
0.8 inches
2.4 inches
5 inches
8 inches

the answer would be 8.

Step-by-step explanation:

If you look at the reduced triangle, the height is 2. Therefore you would have to multiply by 4 instead of 0.4 even if the scale factor is 0.4. The reason is, you are enlarging the triangle to find the bigger triangle. If you did 0.4 times 2 you would get 0.8. But that wouldn’t make any sense if you said that that was the height of the ENLARGED triangle.

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