| The length of rectangle |
A |
is |
5 |
times the length of rectangle |
B. |
The width |
| of rectangle |
A |
is |
5 |
times the width of rectangle |
B. |
| Column A |
|
Column B |
| Five times the ratio of the |
| length of rectangle |
A |
to the |
| length of a diagonal of rectangle |
B. |
|
|
| The ratio of the area of rectangle |
| A |
to the area of rectangle |
B. |
|
Choices:
Choice (B). Picking numbers for the dimensions will make your life easier than using variables. Make the length of rectangle B 4, and its width 3 (thereby including two 3-4-5 triangles where the diagonal of the rectangle is 5). Thus according to the centered information, the length and width of rectangle A will be 20 and 15 respectively, with a diagonal of 25. Column A now works out to be (20:5)5 or 20:1. Column B works out to be 300:12 or 25:1.
