In music, two notes are said to be an octave apart when one note is exactly twice the frequency of the other. Suppose you have a guitar string playing frequency 4f0. To decrease the frequency to f0, you will have to     Decrease the length by a factor of 2.       Increase the length by a factor of 4     Decrease the length by a factor of 16.       Decrease the length by a factor of 4.       Increase the length by a factor of 16     Increase the length by a factor of 2

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In music, two notes are said to be an octave apart when one note is exactly twice the frequency of the other. Suppose you have a guitar string playing frequency 4f0. To decrease the frequency to f0, you will have to

   

Decrease the length by a factor of 2.

 
   

Increase the length by a factor of 4

   

Decrease the length by a factor of 16.

 
   

Decrease the length by a factor of 4.

 
   

Increase the length by a factor of 16

   

Increase the length by a factor of 2

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