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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?
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 .
