According to a headline, ‘Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years’. What is the approximate percentage reduction in the length of the side of a square when it loses one quarter of its area, thereby becoming a smaller square?
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13%
25%
38%
50%
65%
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