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A student claims that if you dilate the net for a cube using a scale factor of 2, the surface



area of the resulting cube is multiplied by 4 and the volume is multiplied by 8. Does this



claim make sense?



(select)



make sense.

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Answer:Yes

Explanation:

Given

Suppose side length of cube is a

If we dilate the cube using a scale factor of 2

Side length becomes 2a

and the surface area becomes
=6(\text{side length})^2

Surface area
=6(2a)^2

Surface area
=4* 6(a)^2

Thus surface area multiplied by a factor of 4

Now for volume


V=(\text{side length })^3


V=(2a)^3


V=8(a^3)

Therefore volume is multiplied by a factor of 8

Therefore the above statements make sense

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