SOLUTION: This problem looks easy but I have tried several times to answer and still have it wrong. Will you please help. Suppose you have two boxes, each of which is a cube. Suppose furth

Question 1100149: This problem looks easy but I have tried several times to answer and still have it wrong. Will you please help.
Suppose you have two boxes, each of which is a cube. Suppose further that the length of a side of the second box is twice as long as length of a side of the first box. If the length of a side of the first box is a q kilometers. Give the volume of each box. The volume of the first box has how many kilometers and how many for the second?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Cube 1
q, the length of each side
volume is .

Cube 2
2q, the length of each side
volume is .
Answer by ikleyn(52834) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Not only it looks easy - IT IS EASY.

cubic kilometer for the 1-st cube and = cubic kilometers for the 2-nd.

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