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the volume of a prism changes from 20 to 540 after a dilation. What was the scale factor of the dilation?
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the volume of a prism changes from 20 to 540 after a dilation. What was the scale factor of the dilation?

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Hello!

You find what they did between the prisms by dividing the second prism by the first prism

540 / 20 = 27

The scale factor is 27

The answer is 27

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