If the area of the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is tripled and the plate separation is halved, by what factor does the capacitance change?

A. it triples
B. it doubles
C. it increases by a factor of 6
D. it increases 1.5 times
E. it decreases to 2/3 the original


C. it increases by a factor of 6

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