Respuesta :

area of parallogram now = 8*10 = 80 square units

 if the sides are multiplied by 4 the new dimensions would be

8*4 = 32, 10*4 = 40

 area would be 32 *40 = 1280 square units

1280 /80 = 16

 the area multiplied 16 times which is the multiple squared ( 4^2 = 16)