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A square has an area of 81 units if a new square has an area of 324 square units what happened to the original dimensions?

A square has an area of 81 units if a new square has an area of 324 square units what-example-1
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Each side length was doubled. If you take the square root of 81 (9) and then the square root of 324 (18) you can see that each side was multiplied by 2
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