SOLUTION: Calculate the ratio between the radii of two spheres, when one is drawn around the cube and the other inside the cube

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Question 388757: Calculate the ratio between the radii of two spheres, when one is drawn around the cube and the other inside the cube
Answer by Jk22(389) About Me  (Show Source):
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The inner sphere has a radius of half the side of the cube,

the outer sphere of half the diagonal of the cube, which is square root of three times half the side length,
thus the ratio of the outer sphere's radius to the inner's is square root of three