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Doubling Squares

Use your answers on page 559, Building a Sequence of Squares, to record the areas of the following squares:

• 1 Area of 2-inch square ________________________

  Area of 4-inch square ________________________

• 2 Area of 3-inch square ________________________

  Area of 6-inch square ________________________

Use the information in Problems 1 and 2 to answer these questions:

• 3 When you double the sides of the square, how does the area change?

• 4 Why does the area change in this way? Use drawings or other representations to show why this change occurs and explain your thinking. Write a rule for what happens using words or numbers.

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