Question

The lengths of each side of rectangle T are 4 times the lengths of each side of rectangle R. How many times larger is the area of rectangle T compared to the area of rectangle R?

Answer 1

Given information:

Two rectangles: Rectangle T and R

Since it is said on the question that the lengths of each side of Rectangle T are 4 times the length of each side of Rectangle R, we can say that Rectangle T is bigger/larger than Rectangle R.

To get the area of a rectangle, we have the following formula to use:

$A=length\times width$

The area of Rectangle T is:

$\begin{gathered} A=length\times width \\ A=4x\times4y \\ A=16xy \end{gathered}$

The area of Rectangle R is:

$\begin{gathered} A=length\times width \\ A=x\times y \\ A=xy \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the area of Rectangle T is 16 times larger than the area of Rectangle R.