Lara has a triangle that has side lengths of 26, 34, and 58. She wants to reduce the triangle by one half, so she divides each side and each angle measurement by 2.

What error did Lara make?
Lara should have multiplied each measurement by 1/2.

Lara should have only divided the angles by 2 in order to reduce the triangle.

Lara should have only divided the side lengths by 2 in order to reduce the triangle.

Lara did not make an error.

C is correct,

A is wrong as it halves both the angles and lengths by two which is the same as what she did in the first place so it cannot be correct.

B is also wrong for a similar reason, a triangle cannot have less than 180 degrees, which is impossible as the angles just change naturally which is why all triangles must have 180 degrees, which is the reason she is wrong in the first place.

And D is just incorrect, if she wanted to have shorter sides she should have only decreased all the lengths as it the the ratio of angles that determine the shape of a triangle while the sum of all angles is 180 degrees.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.