Question

Adam reduces a 14 inch long document on the photocopier. The copy is 0.6 times as long. The type on the reduced document is too small to read, so Adam enlarges the reduced copy 1.4 times. How long is the final copy of the document?

Answer 1

14 inch document....it is reduced to 0.6 times as long...
14 * 0.6 = 8.4 inches long
it is too small, so he enlarges it 1.4 times...
8.4 * 1.4 = 11.76 inches <===