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The company also wants to offer a family size box of cereal. The family size box will be a dilation of the singleserving 1.2 ounce box. It must contain 18.75 ounces of cereal. What scale factor does the company need to usefor the family size box?You must explain or show your reasoning to recieve full credit.

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Given:

Dilation of the single serving 1.2 ounce box.

It must contain 18.75 ounces of cereal.


\begin{gathered} \text{Scale factor=}\sqrt[3]{(18.75)/(1.2)} \\ =\sqrt[3]{15.625} \\ =2.5 \end{gathered}

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