if the area of the triangle on the left is twice the area of

by **stock.mojo11** Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:39 am

urooj.khan Wrote:

Similar triangles will have area in the square of the ratio of their sides.

So if triangle 2's side is 2 times greater than triangle 1, triangle 2's area will be 4 times greater than triangle 1.

Here you are given area, so sides will be in the ratio of the square roots.

Hence it is D

by **RonPurewal** Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:10 pm

i have posted 2 different solutions to this problem on 2 different threads.

here they are:

(1) post8288.html#p8288

(2) post19973.html#p19973

if the area of the triangle on the left is twice the area of

if the area of the triangle on the left is twice the area of

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