Describe how multiplying all the linear dimensions by 4/3 affects the surface area of the right cone.

Question

The right cone has a radius of 2.4 ft and a height of 3.6 ft.

The surface area is ___ times the original surface area.

Answer 1

The areas (two or three dimensional) of two similar figures are in ratio as the square of the scale factor.

In this case the result have 16/9 the surface area of the original.