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Leila's vegetable garden has an area of 400 ft. It is the shape of a rectangle with a length of 40 ft and a width of She has decided to expand the garden to make room for several new varieties of lettuce. The new garden will be a larger rectangle. She plans on making the new length 2 times the current length and the new' width 4 times the current width.
(a) Fill in the blanks to describe the size of Leila's new garden.
___ ft x ___ ft = ___ ft²
(b) How will the expansion change the area of the garden?
The area of the new garden will be _____ times the area of the current garden.
(c) Leila's friend Keiko also wants to expand her rectangular garden. Keiko wants her new garden to be a rectangle that has 20 times the area of her current garden. She goes to Leila for advice. Fill in the blank so that Leila's advice to Keiko is correct.
Make the new length 5 times the current length, and make the new width _____times the current width.
