SOLUTION: A magazine editor has asked a graphic artist to distort a photograph by increasing its length and width by the same amount in order to double the area of the photograph. If the pho

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Question 1137980: A magazine editor has asked a graphic artist to distort a photograph by increasing its length and width by the same amount in order to double the area of the photograph. If the photograph was 12 cm long by 8 cm wide, what are the dimensions of the enlarged photograph?

Answer by ikleyn(52776)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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To double the area, each new dimension must be    times the old dimensions.


If the similar figures have the areas ratio 2, then the similarity coefficient is  .



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