A square picture has an area of square inches. If the side length of the picture is doubled, what is the area, in square inches, of the new picture?
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square inches
The area of a square with side length is given by . Since the original area is square inches, the original side length is inches. Doubling this side length gives a new side length of inches. Therefore, the area of the new square is square inches. Alternatively, when all linear dimensions of a two-dimensional shape are multiplied by a scale factor , the area is multiplied by . Since the side length is doubled (), the area is multiplied by , resulting in square inches.
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When a two-dimensional shape is scaled by a factor of , its area is scaled by a factor of .