square shed that is 5 meters long on each side. However, before the construction begins, school management decides to halve the length of the shed on all sides. By how much would the area of the square shed decrease?

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square shed that is 5 meters long on each side. However, before the construction begins, school management decides to halve the length of the shed on all sides.    By how much would the area of the square shed decrease?

imstuck · Answer

Here what you need to do is find the area of the larger shed, the area of the smaller shed, and then subtract the smaller from the larger to find the difference.  What is the formula for finding the area of a square?