The area of a triangle is 96. If the base of a triangle is tripled and the height is reduced to one-third its original length, what is the new area?

3
1/3
9
The area would not change

I'm stumped:/ Please help? Thanks

3 answers

think about it. The original area is 1/2 bh

The new area is

1/2 (3b)(h/3) = 1/2 bh

no change.
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