Bryan is an art sculptor and is creating an art series made entirely of similar figures. He buys a Sponge Bob Square Pants figure and decides he wants to make a larger version that is 15 times bigger in each dimension. If the area of the small figure is 12.5 cm², what is the area of his new sculpture

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anonymous · Answer

Area = dimension * dimension
area of bigger = 15*dimension *15*dimension = 225 * dimension * dimension
= 225 * area
225 times bigger

anonymous · Answer

thank you very much