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.

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jhonyy9 · Answer

,, The packing boxes shown" - where are ? please post these figures

Mercury · Answer

pulled this info from the original problem:

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.

if you compare lengths, (2 vs. 6 feet) the scale factor is clearly 3, since 2*3 = 6. now, for volume, the volume is proportional to the **cube** of the scale factor. so the bigger volume is 3^3 times the small volume.