SOLUTION: In the figure above, the area of the second dog drawn below is 9 times as large as the area of the first. If the small dog’s tail is 2 cm long, how long is the tail of the seco

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Question 1157628: In the figure above, the area of the second dog drawn below is 9 times as large as the area of the first. If the
small dog’s tail is 2 cm long, how long is the tail of the second dog?
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Area 9 (= 3^2) times as large means the scale factor is 3:1.

Since the small dog's tail is 2cm long, the large dog's tail is 3*2=6cm long.