Dale Ungerer, a farmer in Hawkeye, Iowa, constructed a gigantic ear of corn to attract tourists to his farm. The ear of corn is 32 feet long and has a circumference of 12 feet. Each "kernel" is a one-gallon milk jug with a volume of 231 cubic inches.

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If a real ear of corn is 10 inches long, what is the scale factor between the gigantic ear o corn and the similar real ear of corn? 

Estimate the volume of a kernel of the real ear of corn