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A photographer decides to reduce a picture she took in order to fit it into a certain frame. She needs the picture to be one-third of the area of the original. If the original picture was 4 inches by 6 inches, how many inches is the smaller dimension of the reduced picture if each dimension changes the same amount?

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A photographer decides to reduce a picture she took in order to fit it into a certain frame. She needs the picture to be one-third of the area of the original. If the original picture was 4 inches by 6 inches, how many inches is the smaller dimension of the reduced picture if each dimension changes the same amount?






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