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If the radius of a sphere is cut in half, how will the volume of the original sphere and the new sphere compare?

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The volumes will be in the ratio of the cubes of their radii.

Say the radius of the original sphere is 2 and the radius of the new sphere is 1 then the ratio of their volumes will be 2^3 to 1^3

= 8 : 1.

The new sphere will have a volume of 1/8 of the original.

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