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When doing scale factors, you will multiply. Always. To get from the original box to the second box, you will multiply by a scale factor of 5/8. An equation can model this. b=5/8a. (Let a = dimensions of original/blue box, let b = dimensions of second/green box).

Since you need to find the dimensions of the first/original box, you need to change b=5/8a to a= [something]. To do that, divide both sides by 5/8. You have b / 5/8 = a. The dimensions of the second box divided by the scale factor 5/8 is the dimensions of the first box. This also makes sense, because the green box looks smaller than the blue box. Hope I helped! This is a challenging subject to explain properly. ^_^"

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Wolfyy Wolfyy · Answer 2 · 2020-09-05T22:01:31+02:00

The answer is D.

Since the original rectangle is bigger, we are going to divide the dimensions in the smaller triangle by the scale factor 5/8. An easy hint to look at in this question is an answer choice that both dimensions are bigger than the dimensions of the smaller rectangle. All the other choices are incorrect because the dimensions of the original triangle are not bigger than that of the smaller triangle which makes them false.

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