Question

A prism with volume 244 cm³ is dilated with a factor of 4
What is the volume of the image?
Enter your exact answer, as a decimal, in the box.
cm³

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

the volume of a 3D object is always calculated in some way by multiplying the 3 dimensions with each other.

so, if every dimension is then changed by a factor f (4 in our case), then the volume changes by f×f×f = f³, as the factor has to be included in the calculation for each dimension. and as they are multiplied with each other, so are the scaling factors in each case.

in our case the prism is dilated by the factor 4.

that means that every side length, every height, ..., each dimension is increased by the factor 4.

and therefore, the volume increases by the factor 4³ = 64.

so, the volume of the new image is

244 × 64 = 15,616 cm³