Question

What is the new volume of a rectangular prism that is originally 192 cubic meters and is then resized using a scale factor of 1/4 on each side length?

Answer 1

would it be 1/4 of 192?

Answer 2

No, it would not. You might want to draw a rectangular prism, labelling its length (L), width (W) and height (H). What is the formula for the volume of this prism? Note that this formula is equal to 192 cubic meters.

Now draw another, smaller, prism. Label its length as (1/4)L or L/4. Similarly label the width and height. Apply the volume formula. What is the volume of this smaller prism?

Answer 3

ok i will thank you!!