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What happens to the volume of a sphere when its diameter is doubled?

What happens to the volume of a sphere when its diameter is doubled?-example-1
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double the radius, volumes increases 8 times, or 800%



User Clay Compton
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with a scale factor

length becomes scale factor * length

area becomes scale factor^2 * area

volume becomes scale factor ^3 * volume

if the diameter is doubled the scale factor is 2

Volume becomes 2^3 * volume

the volume increases by a factor of 8

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