SOLUTION: whats the difference between surface area and volume?

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Question 609618: whats the difference between surface area and volume?
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Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source):
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Hello,
Best way to explain this is use a cube. (a box or similar object)
How much could you put in the box? That's volume.
Paint the outside of the box. That's surface area.
Make sense?
RJ
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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
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Surface area is the area of the thin sheet of aluminum required to make a soda can, meausured in square units. Volume is the amount of soda in the can, measured in cubic units.

In the sense of polynomials, the formula for surface area is a second degree expression and the formula for volume is a third degree expression.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it