five times bigger

Maybo

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If I said 'the lake will get five times bigger', is it 5 square miles X5=25 square miles? Or 5 square miles +5 square miles X5=30 square miles?
 
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jutfrank

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The word 'times' is about multiplication. Five times five is twenty-five.
 
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