SOLUTION: A cube is a solid figure with six faces. Each face is a square. The surface area of a cube is the total area of all the faces of the cube. When I increase the side length of a

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Question 262194: A cube is a solid figure with six faces. Each face is a square. The surface area of a cube is the total area of all the faces of the cube. When I increase the side length of a certain cube by 3, the surface area increases by 234. What is the volume of the original cube?
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
6*(x+3)^2-6*x^2=234
x=5
volume =5^3=25*5=125

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