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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(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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Cube 1
q, the length of each side
volume is q%5E3.

Cube 2
2q, the length of each side
volume is %282q%29%5E3=8q%5E3.

Answer by ikleyn(52829) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Not only it looks easy - IT IS EASY.

q%5E3 cubic kilometer for the 1-st cube and %282q%29%5E3 = 8%2Aq%5E3 cubic kilometers for the 2-nd.