document.write( "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?\r
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document.write( "To double the area, each new dimension must be  \"sqrt%282%29\"  times the old dimensions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If the similar figures have the areas ratio 2, then the similarity coefficient is  \"sqrt%282%29\".\r\n" );
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