Kelli has a family photograph with a width of 6 in and a height of 8 in. She wants to enlarge the photograph so that it’s width is 15 in.what will the height of the enlarged photograph be?

Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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Given :

Width of photograph = 6 in

Height of photograph = 8 in

Ratio of width and height = 6/8

= 3/ 4

Enlarged width of photograph = 15 in

We can see that enlarged width is 5 times the previous width.

So, height of enlarged photograph = 4 × 5

= 20 in