SOLUTION: Please help me solve this. Suppose that the width of a square is three times the width of a second square. How do the areas of the squares compare? Why?

Question 829020: Please help me solve this.
Suppose that the width of a square is three times the width of a second square. How do the areas of the squares compare? Why?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a square is the square of its width.

Now if you change the width to 3 times the original

What happens to the area of the new square?

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