Homework Help: geometry

Posted by chelsea on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:19pm.

The shortest side of a polygon of area 196 sq. in. is 4 in. long. Find the area of a similar polygon whose shortest side is 8 in. long.

geometry - Reiny, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:33pm
The areas of similar polygons are proportional to the square of their corresponding sides

so x/196 = 8^2/4^2
x/196 = 64/16
x = 784
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