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jake wants to enlarge his 12 foot by 14 foit garden. if he multiplies the dimensiond by 2, how will the area of the garden be affected?
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jake wants to enlarge his 12 foot by 14 foit garden. if he multiplies the dimensiond by 2, how will the area of the garden be affected?

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12x14 is 168 12x2=24 14x2=28 24x28=672
672/168=4 The area is affected by a scale factor of four. Because the label of area is the unit squared, you just square the number that the dimensions are being multiplied by.
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