The Right Move home-moving company has a variety of cardboard packing boxes available for use. The packing boxes shown here are similar figures. What is the volume of the larger box? Show your work and explain how you arrived at your answer by applying the scale factor rule of volume.

Two rectangular moving boxes are shown side-by-side. The first one has length of two feet, width of zero point five feet, and height of one foot. The second one has length of six feet.

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The Right Move home-moving company has a variety of cardboard packing boxes available for use. The packing boxes shown here are similar figures. What is the volume of the larger box? Show your work and explain how you arrived at your answer by applying the scale factor rule of volume.

Two rectangular moving boxes are shown side-by-side. The first one has length of two feet, width of zero point five feet, and height of one foot. The second one has length of six feet.

anonymous · Answer

where is le picture?

anonymous · Answer

the paragraph on the bottom is supposed to explain the picture...

anonymous · Answer

ratio of vol of larger to vol. of smaller = 6^3 / 2^3 if the boxes are similar

anonymous · Answer

o sry well it seems that the lengths width and height of the new box is 3 times the height of the old box
so say the first boxhad length l width w and h
well the new box would have length 3l heigh 3h and width 3w
so it would b:
(3l)(3w)(3h)=9lwh. so the new box has 9 times the value of volume of the old box