The square below is the image of a square that was dilated by a scale factor of 1. Find the area of the preimage, the original square, before its dilation. Figures are not
necessarily drawn to scale.
11

1,936 square units

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question, we have it that the original image was dilated by a factor of 1/4

what this mean is that the original image was reduced by up to a quarter size to get this new image

Now, to get the original image, we have to enlarge by a factor of 4

So, we simply have to multiply the side length of the new square by 4

We have that as;

11 * 4 = 44 units

Mathematically, the area of a square is the square of its side length

So, we have the area of the square as;

44 * 44 = 1,936 square units

ou would have 12 of each